Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sophomore Kim Cooper prevailed over UVA's Carolyn Scherman at the number-three singles spot, 6-3, 7-5. In one of her strongest matches of the season, Cooper controlled the court with a strong attacking game...
Government by Symbolism. Reagan was a master at this, and Bush has proved a very quick study. When the Supreme Court last July ruled that the burning of the U.S. flag qualified as protected free speech under the First Amendment, Bush and his advisers organized a media event before the Iwo Jima memorial in Washington so the President could call for a constitutional amendment to ban flag desecration. Congress shied away from an amendment, but last week it passed a simple criminal law that would impose a jail term of up to one year on anyone who burned the flag...
...COUNTRY'S GOOD. The acerbic antimilitary play, named London's best last season, gets double exposure: the original Royal Court version is at the Canadian Stage Company in Toronto, while the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles offers a U.S. premiere...
...from Asian philosophy to Brazilian literature. "Look at this!" exults owner Andy Ross, demonstrating the proper passion. "We carry Thomas Mann! We have all of Dickens!" Ross sued two mass-market % publishers who, he claimed, discriminated against him by giving unfair discounts to chains. He won an out-of-court settlement but still argues that chains, with their narrow stock of titles and widespread outlets, "limit the availability of ideas in our culture...
...store owners and political protesters, RICO's bottom-line result is and will be self-censorship. The Supreme Court once recognized this evil, writing that the First Amendment needs "breathing room...