Word: curious
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...success of the government's economic programs has also given rise to a clutch of unprecedented problems. So many curious visitors want to witness the economic miracle of Shenzhen firsthand that the government has had to erect a metal fence, complete with patrol road and sweeping arc lights, along the length of the zone's 54-mile border. Workers in the cities, whose $40-a-month wage used to be twice as high as that of the average farmer, must now watch uneducated villagers take home $400 a month. Jealous, or "red-eyed," party cadres vent their resentment against prosperous...
...little disappointing that Horner issued not the first, but the last official denunciation of the Pi Eta Club's newsletter, which referred to women as "slobbering bovines" and employed violent sexual imagery. Curious too, in light of Horner's own praise for the strong responses from Bok and Fox, saying such an official response is "reassuring" and "essential for restoring the confidence in the basic civility of this community...
Those who do not share Mr. Golding's religious views will be alarmed at the starkness of the contrasts he offers; those who are prone to agree with him on religion will be curious how religion is to be applied to society and how faith is to be reconciled with such popular intellectual systems as psychoanalysis...
...foreign policy, Reagan argued, Congress has been long on demands and short on follow-through. Said he: "Congress has not yet developed capacities for coherent, responsible action needed to carry out the new foreign policy powers it has taken for itself." But his examples of this failure were curious, to say the least. Congress has significantly raised the level of aid to El Salvador over the past three years; last week the Senate passed a measure providing $62 million in emergency military funds for El Salvador with barely a change in the final White House request. The sole legislative action...
More to the point. I find it curious that the editors of The Crimson many of whom are aspirants to the writing trade, would throw in with the priggish wing of the Left that leans all too blithely toward censorship. There is more virulent misogyny to be found in the books of Charles Bokowski or even Norman Mailer than in anything that ever circulated at the Pi Eta, yet I wouldn't want to see them removed from the stacks of Widener simply because a cult of cocksure feminists was camped on the front steps...