Word: aspects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the season began, the racquetmen sensed their potential, and started a rigorous preseason training program with an intensity that hadn't existed in previous seasons. "In a lot of ways our team was formed then." Co-Captain John Dinneen remembers. "We really started to realize the team aspect of being willing for each other rather than ourselves...
...aspect of war that hit particularly hard was the effect conflicts have on children. A special report, "Children of War," elicited 636 letters, most of them praising the story. Wrote one reader: "Seldom have I seen such compelling and articulate work...
...should go without saying (though apparently it does not) that one cannot learn to think in the abstract: one has to think about something. But here we come to what is perhaps the most misunderstood aspect of the new curriculum. Critics point an accusing finger at courses such as "Monuments of Asia." "The Novel in East India," and "The Great Rebellion: Britain 1640-1660" as instances of narrowness run attack. They conclude from this that the Core makes students "slaves of the techniques of narrow academic study": worse, captives of "powerful departmental interests...
Perhaps the most troubling aspect of the public response to the Commission's report is the apparent readiness of Israel's defenders to accept the appearance of legal procedure as being the equivalent of the substance of democratic government. There is something myopic in the proposition that a "democracy" is no more than a government which follows acts of genocide with rituals of retribution. Somehow, one would hope and expect of a democracy that it not commit such atrocities as those committed in Lebanon to begin with. This hints at the inconsistency between Israel's simultaneous claim to status within...
...longtime student of appointments: "This Administration has selected a higher percentage of partisans than any since Woodrow Wilson's." Goldman calculates that Reagan has gone outside his party for only 2.9% of his district court appointments, compared with 4.5% for Jimmy Carter and 7.2% for Richard Nixon. One aspect of the political pattern has even the Administration upset, however. Under the longstanding system of "senatorial courtesy," the President generally fills vacancies from lists provided by Republican Senators. This is one reason for the heavy white, male tilt, say Administration officials. They recently passed the word to Senate leaders that...