Word: actually
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...actual lyrics of "Born in the USA" make clear that Springsteen has a much saner view. He knows that the cause of the war was morally suspect. "They sent me off to some foreign land / To go and kill the yellow man." Springsteen, whose first drummer died in Vietnam, recognizes the senseless tragedy of the war. "I had a brother at Khe Sahn / Fighting off the Viet Cong / They're still there / He's all gone...
...assumptions of Golden Days is that testosterone is the most unstable element in the universe. When men, the sole possessors of penises and nuclear missiles, go wrong, the result is usually bad. See's holocaust is foreshadowed by a catalog of vague fears. The cause of the actual disaster is left unclear, although the reader has been prepared for its reason: the inevitability of male conflict. This is a stimulating and not unreasonable assertion, although it is not convincingly worked out as fiction. Neither is the author's romantic projection that the destruction is a new beginning that will eliminate...
...doctors and other upper-crust male professionals. The idea, the only idea, was to enforce sexual restraint. Reformers believed that enlightened mass education could help banish venereal disease, prostitution, masturbation and sex outside marriage. The notion of "scientific" sex education arose as a way of deflecting the curious from actual sexual behavior. Instruction, said a 1912 committee, "should aim to keep sex consciousness and sex emotions at the minimum." Then, as now, there were heavy implications that parents, particularly impoverished ones, could not be counted on to teach restraint to the young...
...began after reports in the Crimson about actual fistfights over using them last year," Zegart said, referring to the 38 Macs and 23 IBM PCs now in the Science Center...
While the claims of CBS and Time were declared to be unfounded, the courts did not find them guilty of "actual malice" or of a "reckless disregard" for the truth. Hence, they were not guilty of libel. Adler writes that such a standard of libel is incoherent. When calling for a reinterpretation of the libel laws, however, she is not very convincing--or credible...