Word: token
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...other hand, he wants to win, and ambition has sandpapered the edge of some of his most obvious political splinters. He is courting blue-collar votes, but he has not changed his mind on any of the important labor legislation pending before Congress. He is making a token attempt to win black support. In public, if someone raises the question, he will say that opposition to the landmark civil rights legislation of the mid-1960s has faded, and of course as President he will enforce those laws. But in private he will still say that the Voting Rights...
...soft-spoken legislator of uncompromising integrity, high talent and moderate views. Democratic Congressman Morris Udall of Arizona described him as "one of the most decent and intelligent gentlemen in this or any other legislative body." Two years ago, Preyer spent only $18,274 to win reelection against token opposition...
Nabokov's faith in the transforming magic of an artist's style leads him to overrate the beautifully written blarney of Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. By the same token, he somewhat underrates Jane Austen, who, despite her "pert, precise and polished" prose, is so deeply rooted in the quotidian that he misses her enchantment. Yet he celebrates his own aesthetic, the "capacity to wonder at trifles," with an ardor that is irresistible. "These asides of the spirit, these footnotes in the volume of life are the highest forms of consciousness," he maintains...
...edge of the curtain and the worn radiant torso, take on something of the strangeness of the space in a good De Chirico. The body is enfolded by its own distances from the world, while planted solidly in a real bedroom. By the same token, the realism of the scene is also an appeal-though a subliminal one-to art history: Jo facing the August light of Truro recalls any number of quattrocento Annunciations...
Like any responsible entrepreneur, Harvard should systematically pass some of the savings that result from cost-cutting measures on to its customers. It also has the responsibility to solicit consumer input so that it can refine the product it offers. That means more than a token student or two on administrative committees. Idealistic and worn as the thought may be, the University must listen. Not only because a student might just have something valuable to say, but, more basically, because he has the right to say it. He has paid...