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A brief digression before the argument concludes. A piece of biographical data (which may or may not be at all to the point) found in an appendix to Sisterhood Is Powerful, an anthology of writings from the Women's Liberation Movement:
For a time, a backlash developed among Americans who viewed the environment as a digression from pressing concerns like poverty, racism and the war. They noted that ecologists, with their holistic view of nature, proclaimed dangers on every front but failed to set clear priorities for action. Ghetto blacks were...
Yovicsin was given a going-away present by the team-a portrait of himself which appeared on the cover of the Dartmouth program. He was introduced by President Pusey, who managed to put a damper on an otherwise inebriated evening with a philosophical digression on education, society and intercollegiate football...
This is sort of a digression, but William Randolph Hearst was expelled from Harvard around the turn of the century for the offense of sending to every member of the Faculty a chamber pot with a picture of himself (i. e., Hearst) pasted in the bottom. Hearst, as we all...
But I was disappointed by the production, for it seemed a curious hybrid between traditional Shakespeare and obtrusive innovations, draining its energy on gratuitous display. The length of Shakespeare's play does not admit digression; the hiatus left by the youth-spring revellings in the middle of the production proved...