Word: cherished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These men must be given the credit they deserve for removing the financial motivation of decision-making from most discussions. If it were well-known, student protest would be much more dangerous. When they do discuss financial decisions, administrators cherish the impression that policy decisions are dictated by economic necessity. Actually, the policy decisions are made, then the financial criteria are set up accordingly. For instance, administrators usually counter the arguments of reformers by claiming that this or that change "would be too expensive." Thus, we must raise tuition, but, they say, we "can't afford" to raise scholarships...
MIRKO stands closer to an interviewer than Americans do, and he speaks softly, never making press-release-type pronouncements of his beliefs and theories on Art. His works are what is public. When they are complete Mirko "shoos them off like grown children." And he does not cherish favorites because "to love your own work very much is like to love yourself--it is sick, morbid...
Americans of course cherish sportsmanship, which asks the loser to leap gracefully over the net and shake the hand of the man he would probably prefer to throttle. As Sportswriter Grantland Rice once put it with classic corn: "For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name,/ He writes?not that you won or lost? but how you played the game." Rice probably borrowed this formula from the legend that Britons play to play rather than to win. In fact, British soccer fans are notoriously sore losers, prone to riot. As for U.S. "sportsmanship," it mainly seems...
...used to adore. More than ever, the people are not lovely, or gentle, or likely to say 'excuse me.' It's as though New York no longer feels loved." While New Yorkers may feel a throb for their city, they do not tend to it or cherish it, as the citizens of some other cities do theirs...
...many, Morse represents Oregon's populist past--the rugged, individualistic Oregon of loggers and pioneer farms along the Willamette. "He is the Oregon all Oregonians cherish," one Morse campaign official said yesterday. "They don't want to vote against their own heritage...