Word: cherishing
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...cherish those predictions that turn out right, even if they are predictions of disaster...
Harvard students should not be too proud. They have us so well trained that even when we see all the ideals we are taught to respect and cherish broken and flaunted in our faces in our own backyard, we don't act. I refer to the manner in which Cambridge and Boston police have managed to arrest 32 people for selling Avatar without so much as a whimper from the Harvard community. What were they arrested for? For not having a peddling permit? But didn't I hear that they had tried to obtain the permits...
...overtones of Johnson's weary-preacher style. Written in close consultation with National Security Adviser Walt W. Rostow, the address explained that the U.S. was in Viet Nam not only because "we cherish freedom and self-determination for all people," but also to look after "our own security." Said Johnson: "I am convinced that by seeing this struggle through now, in Viet Nam, we are reducing the chances of a larger war-perhaps a nuclear...
Broadway does cherish one "original"-George Abbott. At the ripe old age of 80, he is directing an updated Hellzapoppin (1938-41), this time with Soupy Sales and Nancy Walker. Another Abbott entry: a musical version of The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N, featuring Tom Bosley (Fiorello!). For Abbott, the shows are the 109th and 110th of his career...
Spoon-Fed & Nose-Led. Galbraith certainly has his points. But many of them are neither original nor entirely valid. He mints a bright aphorism here and there. "Men who believe themselves deeply engaged in private thought are usually doing nothing," he writes. And again: "One should always cherish his critics and protect them where possible from foolish error." But his writing is too often didactic and his logic oversimplified...