Word: admitedly
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...right, of course, about the third alternative, and a very sensible one it is--working out some system of fooling the grader; although I think I should prefer the word "impressing." We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hyper-credulous simps. His first two tactics for system beating, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocations, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...
Granted, most heavy metal is heinous. Even I admit that. But every genre contains its large share of unconscionable work. One must really listen to a lot of music, selectively, in order to locate the treasures among the trash, the pieces that move the human soul time and again. Verdi is esteemed the master of opera, but many forget that the majority of his work never gets performed--because even opera fanatics know it to be atrocious. We don't judge Guiseppe on the basis of his many horrendous compositions, but on his masterpieces like La Boheme...
...being ridiculous? I admit that as a kid I saw Roy Rogers shoot-'em- ups and the brutal battles between Elmer Fudd and Daffy Duck. These didn't warp me for life. But I never saw anything so violent as Batman before I could tie my shoelaces, and to this day I don't have the stomach to watch The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. As a teenager I thought the Rolling Stones' Let's Spend the Night Together was cool, but it's a long way from that to this Guns N' Roses lyric: "Panties 'round your knees/ With your...
...least Mandela appears to understand, Buthelezi cannot be wished away. He has built up a solid constituency, though it is less representative than he would admit. Most of Inkatha's estimated 1.7 million members are Zulus residing in the KwaZulu homeland within Natal. And some of Buthelezi's policies make sense. Mandela's adherence to socialism seems outdated compared with Buthelezi's advocacy of free enterprise. The Zulu chief's repeated calls for compromise are now being loudly echoed by Mandela. And Buthelezi's pioneering Natal-KwaZulu Indaba, a formula for black-white power sharing in local government...
...White House has 1) earmarked $1 billion for global climate research next year; 2) committed the U.S. to phasing out production of chlorofluorocarbons, potent greenhouse gases, by the year 2000; and 3) vowed to plant a billion trees, which would absorb CO2 from the air. But Administration officials admit that Bush advanced most of the measures for reasons other than reducing global warming. And environmentalists argue that the Government should do much more to discourage the burning of fossil fuels. Among the possibilities: raise the gasoline tax or use financial incentives to encourage people to buy smaller, more efficient cars...