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...grisly response" when he and others stood in dining halls to ask students to join in a protest of a screening of "Cruising," a movie that gay students believed stereotyped gays as thugs. Schatz recalls, "We would say. 'This movie encourages violence against gays and lesbians.' And people would applaud...
...competing with each other for profit and fame. In a world as brim full of the commercial and the exploitative as ours, Harvard should serve as a sanctuary of something higher. And though we are not convinced these were the only reasons for rejecting the commercial enterprise, we applaud his decision...
From the tropical jungles of Zaire to the snowscapes of Anchorage, the Pope has shown an ability to make people applaud, laugh, cry and sing. Shedding the reserve of his predecessors, he has hummed along on the folk tunes, or joshed the crowds who would not let him go. In Cracow, Poland...
...Reagan's voice grew stronger in his spirited assault on alternatives to his spending and taxing plans, Democrats found much less to applaud. They knew that he was there, however amiably, to do them in politically. His biggest ovation in a 20-minute speech that was interrupted 13 times by applause came as he chided Congress for its past practice of taking only timid steps toward change. "The old and comfortable way is to shave a little here and add a little there," he said. "Well, that's not acceptable any more. I think this great and historic...
...late, South Boston, East Boston and Charlestown residents, alarmed at the padlocking of police and fire stations, have "liberated" them. They need money more than symbols, though, and so they have lately begun to block traffic around the city in an attempt to dramatize their plight. We applaud their actions, and call on others to join them. For a little while it may work, as Boston borrows its way out of immediate trouble...