Word: damn
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Chin added that "getting credit might help," but Mallardi, the company's artistic adviser, does not feel that is a possibility. "Harvard will probably never give credit," she said on Monday. But Mallardi too is resentful. "I don't give a damn whether people get credit for dance," she said, "but when you're in an atmosphere where students are under academic pressure and also love dance, they're blown in the wind. I don't feel there's interest from the administration. It's worth it-the talent is there--but we wear ourselves out trying to make...
...balance of Does Anybody Give a Damn? is concerned with evidence that schools are "failing." As Hentoff points out, 23 per cent of all students in American public schools fail to graduate from high school, while 43 per cent of all elementary school children are in critical need of reading help. In central Harlem, 87 per cent of elementary and junior high school students fail the standardized reading tests. But this book is neither apocalyptic nor despairing. Hentoff says, "My main interest all along in writing about education has been finding ways in which certain schools can and do work...
...Stevens executives are betting on the American public. They are betting that people won't give enough of a damn about Southern textile workers to become outraged over a situation that is clearly outrageous. They are betting on popular lethargy, and hoping people will rationalize, such as: the situation is far away and doesn't concern me; we have had enough of such causes; the issues are complex and there must be two sides; I don't have the time...
...damn lie to suggest that there isn't enough competition in the oil business," charged Union Oil Chairman and President Fred Hartley in response to Carter's claim that there was not. While praising the thrust of Carter's energy alarm, General Motors Chairman Thomas Murphy protested that some of the President's Washington-oriented advisers, far more than Carter, "are influenced by their own life-styles and they don't understand the dimension of the American public." A less biased criticism of Carter's plan was that its measures were far milder than those suggested by the apocalyptic terms...
...with Historian D.W. Brogan's citation of the contrast between democratic government and the nondemocratic, which "is like a splendid ship, with all its sails set; it moves majestically on, then it hits a rock and sinks for ever. Democracy is like a raft. It never sinks, but damn it, your feet are always in the water...