Word: dishonorables
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Callaghan's ploy nevertheless left Tory Leader Thatcher furious. "This is a defeat with dishonor!" she snapped at a press conference. "No government has ever sunk so low-refusing to put its policies to a vote in the House of Commons." Indeed, Thatcher added, "We have no government...
...Jimmy Carter for "elusiveness," yet proclaims that his program "remains, fundamentally, a plan devised in the tradition of the Democratic Party." No. He has given us not a plan, but rhetoric in the best tradition of the Democratic Party. No one ever promised us unemployment, economic recession, peace with dishonor, a polluted environment, ad nauseam. I would not expect Jimmy Carter to do so. But it remains to be seen what he proposes to do about our problems, and what philosophy would shape his proposals...
...classmates may shun him as a pariah. To some zealots who swear by the honor code, the very fact that a cadet is accused of wrongdoing is reason enough to condemn him -a situation that shows how a system designed to develop honor can be warped to foster dishonor...
...Cassavetes is most interested in the pauses and side notes everyone else passes over. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie is another of the director's blitzed meditations on life at the edge. Cosmo Vitelli (Ben Gazzara) owns a strip joint on Sunset Boulevard and a debt of dishonor. No sooner has he finished paying off the mortgage on the Crazy Horse West than he runs up an unmanageable IOU at a Santa Monica gambling joint. To pay the debt, the gamblers put this proposition to Cosmo: snuff a Chinatown bookie. Cosmo likes the risk of the proposition. Even...
...eighty-five percent of the class had graduated with honors and that seventy-three people had received Summas, it was possible to question how much of an honor it was to graduate from Harvard with honors. Quite to the contrary, Professor Mansfield thought it could only be considered a dishonor not to obtain the degree with honors. Professor Mansfield wondered whether it wasn't past time when some concerted action on the matter was required, since the shape of the curve in honors had ceased to be that of a bell and had come to resemble a swelled head...