Word: contents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Christmas symbol so devoid of content that it could not possibly offend anyone is probably what is needed. But nobody would be interested...
...Flanking Jesus in the Resurrection scene on one of the windows are two Roman guards dressed in gladiatorial drag and bearing the distinct likenesses of French President Francois Mitterrand and Communist Party Leader Georges Marchais. No one noticed at first, and now Father Louis Hubert and his parishioners are content to let them be. "There were a few nasty souls," says Father Hubert, "who intimated that Jesus bears a strange resemblance to [former President Valery] Giscard d'Estaing. But that is false-absolutely false...
...election is likely to turn upon the condition of the American economy. Walter Mondale, long a free trader, began sounding like a tough-guy protectionist as he toned up last fall for the presidential race. Congressmen heard the cries from home. The House passed a "domestic content" bill that would have required that American parts or labor must be involved in producing most foreign cars sold in the U.S. The Reagan Administration figured that the bill would prompt retaliation from U.S. trading partners, raise U.S. car prices by 10% and cost the economy from $3 billion to $5 billion overall...
...graceful, flowing prose, Konner sides with neither. Instead, he shows clear impatience with those who are content to deal with human behavior as a determinate product of the two distinct forces, heredity or environment, or some set mix of the two. He sees the so called "nature nurture" mix as an infinitely complex relationship. "Now that the discussion of heredity versus environment has transcended the 'versus,' passing beyond the question. Which and the only slightly less useful question. How much to the mature question. How we must prepare ourselves to face the fact that this last is not one question...
...atria, but the picture held none of the force of the scene in the Texas prison. One sketch showed clearly, in cartoon style, where Brooks' girlfriend was standing, the position of the chaplains, the precise spot where the catheters entered the arms. Of course, the dramatic content of the events was in inverse proportion to the excitement of the settings. In Clark's case, society asked him, as Dylan Thomas asked his father in a villanelle, not to succumb to death placidly, but to "rage, rage against the dying of the light." In the case of Brooks, society...