Word: applauding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although I applaud Dr. Ducey's and the Bureau's care for our mental health, they should not be too quick to jump at the psychological cause of students' decreased motivation and ignore the physical underpinnings of our functioning...
...feels almost inclined to applaud the brazen insensitivity of last Wednesday's Conservative "Coming Out" Dinner. Here, under the guise of good-natured mockery, we are presented with an appropriation of the discourse of "coming out" that utterly disregards the real experiences of being a despised minority...
Thank you for the article on the epidemic of rape in South Africa [WORLD, Nov. 1]. I applaud the amazing contributions made by rape survivor Charlene Smith in publicizing her experience in an effort to stop the plague that is infecting my country. Being a young female in South Africa is increasingly terrifying. As many as a third of us will endure one of life's most horrifying experiences, sexual assault. Almost every male is a threat to our well-being. FRANCES SUTHERLAND Pretoria, South Africa...
What is surprising is that the leader of the largest "non-violent" animal rights organization in the U.S. should step forward and applaud these latest mailings. Commenting on the razor letters, Ingrid Newkirk, president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), said, "I hope it frightens [the scientists] out of their careers...
...staff recognizes this line of argument, and its only response is to suggest that in some far away epoch, those mores that forbid mixed-sex rooming groups may also crumble. We would hardly applaud such a development. We cling to the out-dated belief that there are some rules of propriety that are, in fact, beneficial to society and the moral life of the individual. Those that protect basic considerations of privacy--the right to establish a sphere devoid of any calculations of sexual dynamics--are worthy of preservation...