Word: citizenships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...placid: small-town Kansas just before rock 'n' roll, lazy evening drives up and down Main Street, hanging out at the Dairy Queen with Best Pal Duane Hoobing or reading at the library. "He was good-looking and could have been very popular," says Hoobing, who teaches citizenship at a junior high school not far from Ottawa, "but he wouldn't pursue popularity for its own sake." He was clearly in hot pursuit of something. He tried four sports, acted, edited the paper, played drums in the band and participated in student politics. "Gary was always worried...
...sororities are equal. I mean if you were a Tri Delt would you want to date a Sigma Nu? Of course not. Mixed marriages never work out. Back in Hellenic times, Aristotle noted that even a slave could contribute his best to society and not be entitled to citizenship. It's somewhat the same with frats...
...cinema's immutable rules holds that any remake must invariably be inferior to the original. We do not reward embezzlers with good-citizenship prizes, do we? But rules are made to be broken, and the new version of Preston Sturges' 1948 comedy, Unfaithfully Yours, scores a narrow but clean win over one's nostalgic sentiment for the old master's original. Director Howard Zieff has retained the classic farcical premise: a jealous husband (Dudley Moore) is erroneously convinced that his young wife (Nastassja Kinski) is cuckolding him and is maniacally determined to gain revenge. Sturges...
...health care to the Spanish Civil War. Harvard University as well sent ambulances to Spain. The Lincoln Brigade, of both men and women, courageously donated their lives. They joined 40,000 volunteers who came from all over the world to fight fascism. At the risk of losing their citizenship they crossed the Pyrenees by foot. Their daringness, their bravery, and their philanthropy, have been forgotten...
...full participation in American life, and more specifically to excuse the segregation of the armed forces. Military officials claimed that Blacks and whites serving together would reduce our defense capability. Blacks as a group were told to put the interests of the nation before their own claims to full citizenship. Eventually these arguments were rejected; it's about time people, including Harvard administrators and faculty, stop their tacit consent of anti-gay bigotry and discrimination...