Word: resister
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...influence at all with Israel and Egypt, even as it struggles to maintain the trust of all the other moderate Arab states. That trust would be important to the U.S. even if oil were not involved. Despite its vital interests in the Middle East, the U.S. should resist the temptation...
...against Western Europe and thus diminish the danger of war. The real problem with the neutron bomb is essentially political: because of internal opposition in a number of European countries to the stationing of new U.S. weapons on their soil, the key NATO allies are likely to continue to resist deployment of the neutron bomb...
...party members at the grass roots. Their technique? Simply to outlast and outtalk older party members. Under pressure from families or jobs, the elders are not as inclined as the militants to argue politics into the wee hours. Protests right-wing Dissident Leader Shirley Williams: "When the moderates resist, they are howled down...
Albee, in fact, is so attached to Nabokov that he can't resist introducing him onto the stage; this character, listed in the program as "A Certain Gentleman," opens and closes the play, and within it follows his characters around, chatting with them, tossing knowing asides into the audience, and generally acting urbane and oh-so-witty. Ian Richardson's letter- and paragraph-perfect performance--even his pinstripes seem to have raised eyebrows--can't entirely excuse Albee's officiousness in creating such a role. It's never pleasant to be talked down to; but when there's this character...
...fuss is apparently going to last forever. Fortunately, it does sometimes fizzle down to a pleasantly inaudible buzz. In fact, the country has enjoyed just such a lull in the years since Southern politicians stopped exhuming John Calhoun's interposition doctrine to resist desegregation. But now the lull is over. The oldest free-floating political issue in U.S. history is flaring up again, fueled by accumulated resentment at that familiar, all-purpose ogre: the huge, cumbersome, inefficient, ever busy Federal Government...