Word: aspects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cynical is this view of "the system" that virtually every aspect of British society comes in for a powerful drubbing. The hospital's union leaders are a grotesque admixture of ideological charlatans and ranting four-year-olds. The three union leaders are prepared to close down the hospital in the name of equality, protesting that the private patients should not receive better food than the public ones. This sincere egalitarian critique is immediately compromised, however, when management allows the three union leaders to attend the catered reception for the Queen...
...recruiting volunteers with practical skills? Developing countries want skilled volunteers. They don't want us merely to send over thousands of well-intentioned Crimson reporters to exude idealism. Why on Earth does Schwinn protest the increase in retirement age of volunteers, which to me is the most admirable aspect of the Peace Corps? So many retirees in this country become trapped in stultifying, deadly boring existences. The Peace Corps offers usefulness and >ael> people Why should college students, with all their opportunities, have more right than retirees to join the Peace Corps...
...Professor Thomas Piper, chairman of the Committee, was quick to play down the career orientation of the proposed modules and stressed the academic aspect of the new courses...
Probably the most aggravating aspect of Rockwell's writing is his unwillingness to go out on a limb, to; make an unqualified statement, to be controversial. Times readers are used to his overly reasonable approach to subject where intellectualizing is completely inappropriate. Only rarely does Rockwell take the bull by the horns and confront the reader with a controversial statement. One case in which Rockwell does reach for eloquence is in his essay or. Latin musician Eddie Palmieri, one of his finest chapters. He writes...
...continuity in Soviet military policy, drawing from it a fuller perception of Soviet designs. Holloway seeks to put the rise of Soviet military power in its historical context; then he extrapolates. The book is not an analysis of Soviet foreign policy--it treats only its military aspect--but nevertheless makes a valuable contribution to the growing literature on the nuclear debate...