Word: aspects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that is in the hazy distance. In the meantime, the high-tech intrusion may change the city in unwelcome ways. "Quality of life" is a virtual mantra in Colorado Springs, and some see that aspect threatened. Ironically, some of the retired officers, who discovered the city's quiet beauty while stationed there, can be found grumbling about air pollution and traffic congestion. Others have noted congressional hesitancy in funding the militarization of space and wonder whether CSOC and the U.S. Space Command are just pie in the sky. Notes Mayor Robert Isaac: "It's hard to see into a crystal...
...Caspar Weinberger, a Soviet diploma or a PLO spokesman to speak on this campus I might protest their presence peacefully but will not interfere with their entry into or exit from the University, or the presentation itself, when I--as a member of a student organization--expect others to aspect my rights to invite and host outside guests. The case of the Consul General is no different simply because he represents a regime which nearly all of us find morally reprehensible. While we may not support his position, he deserves to be heard. His status as a foreign diplomat...
...only remaining negative aspect of the track is the gusty winds that plague the site. The winds not only keep the times from falling as low as they might, they also add an undesirable Arctic pect to the competitions...
WHITE NOISE is the apotheosis of talk-show patter: every aspect of life is briefly touched upon, from urban alienation to the difficulty of finding good German language lessons, and all are left burnished and gleaming after doing their turn in the Don DeLillo kitschmobile. Where's the beef? Everywhere--shredded like so many ground-up Gainesburgers...
...most intriguing aspect of No Magic Bullet's is Brandt's analysis of the military's campaign against V.D. On the eve of World War I, the stereotypical macho image of men in uniform rang true; in 1917 the War Department was so alarmed by training camp reports of drunkenness and carousing with wanton women that it promised soldiers "invisible armor" to protect them against the "heated temptations" of immorality. A Commission on Training Camp Activities was created with the objective of not only cleaning up the extra-curricular activities of the soldiers but using the American military...