Word: baling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...academic freedom, beyond the elimination of unabashed political gangsterism, is whether some of the people appointed in every field do work that most of their colleagues believe to be fundamentally misguided and dangerous, but which, by an act of self-doubt or self-transcendence, these same skeptical colleagues are bale to see as the possible vehicle of a powerful truth. Professors often fail to rise to this standard of judgement out of prejudice, mean-mindedness, and the narcosis induced by membership in a mutual admiration society. But they also fail out of a kind of hypocrisy and despair. They want...
Behind the corrugated grocery store, three horses mosied against a wire fence. Straw wisps floated from a bale mountain stacked against the slatted outhouse. Sammy reached over the wire and stroked the palamino's muzzle. Get some hay, he called to Rick and Rick stooped to gather a handful of hay. Feed him, said Sammy with one eye on Rick and the other on the horse. You do it, Rick whined. Sammy held the hay to the horse's smile while it lapped his palm. The other horses whinnied and crowded closer before Sammy and Rick headed across the dirt...