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...have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we all like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own seeing them in your blue book, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of seeing St. Augustine flattened by a phrase or a phrase or reading about the "Xian myth...
Some Democrats did not mask their unhappiness. As Gingrich gave his speech, Representative Maxine Waters of California decided she wasn't going to bother to fake it. As her colleagues clapped at the nicer sentiments of Gingrich's speech -- and even rose to applaud him several times -- Waters sat fixed in her seat, glowering. For part of the speech, she even left the chamber. But others in her party were willing to marvel...
Professors also applaud museum cooperation with their classes...
...nights the line, with its obvious echo of the latest ideas from Congress, has been bringing gasps and mutters from the crowd. In the months to come, Scrooge is a role Gingrich and his followers won't be afraid to assume. The only question is how many Americans will applaud the performance...
...also the most popular of the breed -- and like Rush, it doesn't seem to matter that a lot of what Newt says is mostly not true. Audiences love it -- as they loved Reagan -- even when they know that what they're hearing is often baseless. For many | who applaud Gingrich and Limbaugh, the catchy rantings are acceptable caricatures of a caricature they already despise -- government. Falsity is forgiven because the target of Gingrich's critiques (like Limbaugh's and Reagan's) is deemed worthy of vituperative attack. As an aspiring congressional candidate in 1978, Gingrich admonished a gathering...