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Most women feel less oppressed by their husbands' pretensions to authority than by the work that falls to them because of their husbands' neglect.
Die Welt of Germany said Monday in an editorial page article signed Katja Ridderbusch that "if the United States wants to be consistent with its own pretensions, it has no choice but to approve the idea of a world system of justice."
Despite the show's folksy pretensions, Clinton is said to still come across as a political beast, promoting funding for the arts and physical education.
He had performed alongside Charlie Parker, led a marvelous quintet with John Coltrane, and collaborated with Gil Evans on such jazz orchestral arrangements as Sketches of Spain and Porgy and Bess . Davis' 1959 sextet recording, Kind of Blue , became, with its haikulike lyricism, synonymous with cool and provided a soundtrack for nearly every party with intellectual pretensions.
Falstaff teaches Hal how to be a quick-witter punster and a master of play; he also teaches him a commoner's skepticism of power and its pretensions.