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Ralph: Nothing at all, my pet. Fresh cant is an important component in America's never-ending quest for novelty. What is high monogamy, by the way? I assume I have been a notably low monogamist all these years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Back Again to High Fidelity | 4/9/1984 | See Source »

...loyalty, promises, secrecy, and truthfulness, and in weighing modes of conduct and life plans." I hope it will be helpful to them, as I hope it will be helpful to those scholars who will not be deflected from the search for Veritas because they are seduced by currently fashionable cant that covers up unpalatable particular truths by parading its preference for lofty, but unexceptionable, general truths

Author: By Sigmund Diamond, | Title: Keeping Secrets | 4/5/1984 | See Source »

...CANT IMAGINE anyone trying to deny folks in their home the right to tape off a common carrier," said Ed Asner, head of the Screen Actors Guild But Walt Disney Studios and Universal City Studios could imagine all that and more. When Sony corporation first introduced video cassette recorders (VCR's), the same people who brought you Peter Pan and Donald Duck and his alleged "nephews" hauled Sony, four Betamax retailers, an advertising agency, and an individual Betamax owner into court for copyright infringement...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: Beaver vs. Disney | 3/16/1984 | See Source »

...opponents of the Nuclear Free Cambridge measures are so specious that must see them for what they art: desperate, had faith attempts to deter the voters of Cambridge from addressing the true issues. If the opponents want to develop nuclear weapons in Cambridge, let them say so, and cant their arguments in phony First Amendment or academic freedom language...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nuclear Free Cambridge Pro: | 10/20/1983 | See Source »

...Till cant cease, nothing else can begin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: There You Go Again | 7/25/1983 | See Source »

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