Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many U.S. skeptics who doubt that glasnost and perestroika are sincere and enduring, the welcome this blunt depiction of history received in Moscow is bound to be reassuring. Says its author: "The most important question now is what legacy we are rejecting. This play is a firm rejection of Stalinism." It is also a poignant and at times eerily apt echo of the present -- as when Lenin and his colleagues sadly conclude that the apparent Communist revolution in Germany, where Marx expected his workers' revolt to start, is instead a brief outpouring of rage and envy from a still conservative...
...decision was Harvard's refusal to consider tenure for visiting professor Regina Austin, a black woman on the law faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. In rejecting Austin's candidacy, Harvard cited a three-year-old rule prohibiting tenure offers to visiting professors. But that technicality did not blunt Bell's anger at the school's hiring policies, which he once characterized as an attempt to recruit people "who look black and think white." Bell, who is black, now concedes that the description was "a bit unfair." But he still sees a "gap between the school's saying...
...which work will begin on the final version. Since then there has been widespread grumbling over both the document's old- fashioned conservatism and the rush-rush deadline for responding to it. Last week leaders of the U.S. bishops escalated the debate, sending the Vatican a sweeping and surprisingly blunt 51-page critique of the Catechism. They also pleaded for more time to consult with theologians and educators over what they called the "most significant" project of the church's magisterium, or teaching office, since the Second Vatican Council...
...family to decide whether to stop the treatment? By adopting the abstract reasoning of jurists and ethicists weighing legal arguments about privacy and moral arguments about mercy? Through some private intuition about how much sorrow they can bear and how much courage they can summon? Or by some blunt utilitarian calculation about whether it is more important to keep Grandmother alive than to send Junior to college? In the end, individuals are left with an intricate puzzle about what is legal -- and what is right -- in making a decision...
...attributed to him in a gay magazine, The Advocate. He was quoted as saying that blacks had "watered down their genes because the less intelligent ones are the ones that have the most children." In a letter published in the same issue, Rooney expressed his distaste for homosexuality in blunt and ill-informed terms. Rooney denied making the racist remarks. But insiders say it was the letter -- which was sent without Burke's approval -- that was most responsible for the suspension...