Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...approval from Congress of $277.5 billion in fiscal 1986 defense spending, a $31 billion increase over the current budget. The Pentagon suspended payments to Hughes Aircraft last year for quality- control problems but then resumed them within a few months. Said Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire, a veteran critic of the Pentagon: "It's a beginning. But if this is all there is to it, it's not going to be enough...
...committee three years ago to try to bring Harvard up to the standards of other institutions nationwide. But the committee has been empowered only to search for one scholar to be jointly tenured in women's studies and another field. Last spring renowned feminist literary critic Elaine Showalter, who would have been jointly tenured is women's studies and another field. Last spring renowned feminist literary critic Elaine Showalter, who would have been jointly tenured with the English Department, went instead to Princeton, a university which has demonstrated its commitment to the burgeoning field...
...think there can be any future for orthodox Christian beliefs." However, he thinks human spirituality has a great future. There is, of course, considerable skepticism about whether spiritual experiences can be studied at all with any degree of success. The late Philip Toynbee, a writer and critic and son of Historian Arnold Toynbee, wrote that Hardy's quest was the equivalent of "trying to catch an angel in his butterfly...
...official put it, on apparent Soviet violations of past Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT) treaties. One example: the construction of a huge radar facility at Krasnoyarsk in Siberia that could be used as a defensive warning system, in violation of the 1972 antiballistic missile (ABM) treaty. Richard Perle, a critic of past arms-control measures, charged last week that the U.S. has allowed the Soviets to "think they could play fast and loose with these accords...
Madonna may indeed have a shrewd notion of both her limitations and her ultimate appeal. "I don't think Madonna, whom I like, has any particular interest in music," says Rock Critic Greil Marcus. "She's going to end up a big movie star. There's nothing wrong with that." As the eldest daughter in a large family whose mother died young, Madonna has always seemed to be looking for a way out. She studied dance, tried ballet and, by the time she left home in her late teens, had already starred in her first movie. It was a Super...