Word: applauding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when the Harvard Gymnastics Club finished sixth in varsity competition at the New England Regional Gymnastics Championship two weeks ago, no one other than a few relatives and friends was there to applaud the club's best performance in its latest incarnation...
...They have been broken by revolutionary means in Nicaragua, and we applaud this. If they can be broken by revolutionary means in El Salvador--O.K. If this also happens in Guatemala--very good. This would insure stability finally. But there will not be immediate stability, however, when you have American arms, American companies being sent to El Salvador, or when you maintain the status quo by not allowing the revolutionary process in these countries to really happen as the people really want them...
That prospect troubles many economists and businessmen who applaud what Reagan is trying to do. Says Otto Eckstein, a member of TIME's Board of Economists: "With only a little additional bad luck, the Government could experience a deficit of $100 billion." Adds DuPont Chairman Irving Shapiro: "I have a lot of trouble with this new economic religion. No businessman would run his business on the basis of an untested thesis...
Those whom the Gods have doomed to a life of literary criticism often look askance at Hannah and his black humor. They criticized him for his absurdity. They were convinced that the world in general, and literature in particular, was a fundamentally sane enterprise. Those who applaud Hannah, with nothing better to say, fell back on complimenting his irony. But irony is not what Hannah is up to. Irony is simply juxtapositioning opposites--a false stance adopted by too many poor writers. It is a higher form of advertising; one flashes on garbage and someone says, "Nice...
Burger acknowledged that what he called his "damage-control program" would be enormously costly. But he maintained that it was "as much a part of our national defense as the budget of the Pentagon." Many in his A.B.A. audience, which interrupted him eight tunes to applaud, obviously agreed, and so did much of America. The New York Times pointed out, in one of the many editorial page responses that the speech provoked, that Burger touched a nerve with "an entire generation of citizens who dread the city streets and in their fear feel deprived of elementary rights." David Armstrong, president...