Word: yieldingness
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There is a savage joy in yielding oneself up to Rhetoric. As the flinging (over-embracing) phrases roll out one is only too willing to submit to the force that drives them, the force of eloquence, of excitement, of head-busting grandeur. For an instant (it should not be for...
The Deposition Scene, which is the high point of the play (and was censored for political reasons until 1608), ought to be the supreme example of Richard's artistic management, the culmiation of a life-long series of shows. It is he who arranged it, he who has staged it...
Someone Named Joe. By then the snub-nosed Iver Johnson eight-shot revolver, model 55 SA?a relatively cheap weapon that retails for $31.95?was yielding information. The serial number had been registered with the State Criminal Identification and Investigation Bureau. Within minutes, the bureau's computer system came...
Widely planted under President Ferdinand Marcos' "Rice, Roads and Schoolhouses" program, improved IR8 has already helped make the Philippines a rice exporter for the first time in this century. In the paddies of India, Pakistan and Malaysia, farmers are sowing thousands of acres of IR8. Even the Indonesians have...
Creating the Sums. Harrington argues that the distressing future the figures portend can be forestalled only by a radical transformation in both economics and politics. The profit motive must give up its place as the primary mainspring in American life, yielding to "a cooperative, rather than a competitive, ethic." To...