Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appeal to extra-systemic means of expressing their point of view! Bok attempts to dominate this point of view by labelling it emotional." I wonder at the horror this word arouses. Yes, confronting the reality of the human condition does involve emotion (some even go so far to claim that this is what humanizes us, offers us a vision of what's truly meaningful and purposeful in life). Of course, emotion produces negative results too--but what is the function of education if not to combine reason and insight and moral awareness in the proctorship of human affairs? Education teaches...
Irish people are used to pretending anyway--at least, that's what some scholars who claim St. Patrick was Welsh or Danish would say. Those same scholars might tell you shamrocks don't grow wild in Eire and that there weren't ever any snakes on the Old Sod. They might as well try to convince Bernard F. Kelly, Sr. that his mother wasn't from Ireland. But if all it takes is a hit or two of green to make anyone Irish this week, who cares? The important thing is that St. Pat did indeed exist, somewhere back...
...current bill gives the hospital industry several months to voluntarily limit inflation, and imposes mandatory controls only if that effort fails. The mandatory program exempts states that have their own cost containment programs, as well as new or rural hospitals, health maintenance organizations, and other facilities that can claim special conditions. About 55 per cent of all hospitals would thus elude these mandatory controls...
Byrd, too, was an obvious choice. He led the league in assists while also putting points on the scoreboard. While not really a bonafide All-American prospect as Lions boosters claim, Byrd is certainly the best guard the Ivies has to offer...
Three of opera's "great progressivists," Igor Stravinsky once declared, were Gluck, Wagner-and the Viennese modernist Alban Berg. Stravinsky was not being merely provocative. As the years go by, Berg's claim to belong in such illustrious company looks more and more secure. It rests on two complex, powerful works, Wozzeck and Lulu, that in effect brought opera into the 20th century. Lulu, in particular, packed traditional operatic emotion and drama into the most advanced of forms, the twelve-tone system devised by Berg's teacher, Arnold Schoenberg...