Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this instance the state was both owner and editor. The Supreme Court in a 5-3 decision affirmed the right of the principal of the school to prevent the publication of two stories in the school's student newspaper, the Spectrum. The principal felt that the articles concerning teen-age pregnancy and divorce threatened the privacy rights of students quoted in the articles, and he pulled them from the paper...
...root of their disadvantage, Nhan Truong believes, stems from their language deficiencies and cultural differences as much as from their poverty. Apprehensive of the new environment, they tend to stay within their own neighborhood. Unable to speak English, they are isolated from other children of their age. In school, they often do poorly as their problems with English can mask their true problems with English can mask true learning potential. According to Nhan Truong, the refugee Children develop and "I-can't-do mentality" that makes it difficult for them to raise their own proficiency. "These kids...
...impact on the minds and emotions of Western man, it is an event that can be compared only to the Passion and death of Jesus. After a lifetime devoted to the pursuit of truth and virtue, Socrates, at age 70, is put on trial, charged with dishonoring the gods and corrupting the youth of Athens. The sage makes an eloquent plea in self-defense but is nonetheless found guilty and condemned to die. His disciples urge him to escape into exile, but Socrates refuses and carries out the court's decree by drinking a cup of poison hemlock...
...nothing less than a definitive survey of the nation's most pervasive and powerful communications medium. It is a venture rich with possibilities and fraught with pitfalls. TV has traded so wantonly in its past -- from documentary retrospectives on the so-called Golden Age to those proliferating "reunions" of old series -- that each new look backward has a tougher job justifying its existence. Dusting off the old kinescopes again is not enough. "All too often," Newman comments at one point, "television is an eye but not a brain." Unfortunately, the same is true of this briskly watchable but ultimately disappointing...
...life by going back to Paris in order to paint the soiled walls and loosely-fixed posters he found on the back streets." Saeki today is a culture hero in Japan, a Van Gogh-like figure who killed himself in a fit of despair over his art at the age of 30 in 1928 -- a strange freak of reputation for a painter whose work seems not much more than sensitive pastiche of those two archbores of the Ecole de Paris, Maurice de Vlaminck and Maurice Utrillo...