Word: comments
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...diatribe also deliberately misquotes, and lifts out of context, a comment I made in a discussion of a complex subject, namely, the paradoxical relationship between British conservatism and the abolitionist movement during the eighteenth century. My discussion was not an attack on British conservatism--the paradoxical reationship is an established historical fact--and only the most ignorant kind of extremist could misinterpret what I said in the way your reviewer...
...they say harassment is common. "They stare. They threaten. They comment," Franklin says...
...needs to be taught this lesson; sword-and-sorcery movies usually go belly up at the box office. So the trick for any modern would-be Grimm is to blend the warring moods of fantasy and cynicism. The story must create a land of outsize heroes and villains yet comment ironically on the unhappy state of a land that needs them. The tone must be grandly facetious to accommodate believers as well as skeptics. William Goldman tried all this in his 1973 novel The Princess Bride. His narrative had all the proper ingredients and all the right new moves...
Curll was formerly assistant dean of admissions at New York University Law School, where the number of minority students more than doubled and women increased from 34 percent to 50 percent during her tenure. Curll, who could not be reached for comment, will be combining the admissions and financial aid offices for the first time. She told the Harvard Gazette that because between 65 and 70 percent of the student body now receives some amount of financial aid, combining the two offices "provides continuity for students...
Hamberger argued that the Government got a better plant than it had bargained for. Specter would not comment on the matter; a staffer said the Senator "did nothing for Dravo that he doesn't do regularly for Pennsylvania companies, many of whom are not contributors." Buried in the 97-page bill, Specter's measure was approved with little fuss, and it later became part of last year's $290 billion defense appropriation. Congress added a dash of austerity: a $10 million cap was put on the amount Dravo could be reimbursed...