Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...selected Oklahoma. Philadelphia had a day for him. The local paper published a commemorative "Marcus Dupree" issue. Highway signs were mounted to declare a new identity, "Philadelphia, Mississippi, Home of Marcus Dupree," and dismiss an old one. "I never thought about being a symbol until everybody started talking about it," he said. "I just thought I'd be another regular running back...
...ORWELLIAN NIGHTMARE of an omnipresent Big Brother intrigued and frightened the reader of the 1940's and 1950's. Today, we casually dismiss such scenarios as fanciful tales or impossibilities. But unknown to most Americans, the Administration has proposed a sweeping plan to monitor the public activities of government officials on a scale unprecedented in our history. Last week, the Senate wisely delayed the implementation of the President's controversial directive to subject federal employees to random lie detector tests and lifelong censorship. The rule (which will now go into effect next April) would have applied to officials cleared...
...weakness in Princeton's system centers on the student committee itself, a collection of three not so holy trinities, to borrow Brennan's metaphor. The committee consists of three current class presidents, three past class presidents, and three students selected from the student body at large. One need not dismiss young government enthusiasts entirely to question a class president's qualifications to make a decision that will affect a student's academic and professional future. A successful class campaign probably results more from candidate's popularity or familiarity with of students than it does from a debate over which moral...
Conservatives in the West have tended to support the first option, liberals the second. Given this fact, you might say that neither group deserves high marks for consistency. Indeed, these same conservatives dismiss increased contact with the Soviet Union as a viable foreign policy tool, and these same liberals push detente as a solution to easing East-West tension and making the USSR a nicer place...
...this issue is not history, but points to it. America has always been impatient with history, and has tried to ignore it or escape it. "History is bunk," said Henry Ford. The prophets of the counterculture agreed with that, as they declared history "not relevant." Easy enough to dismiss this as know-nothing arrogance. Yet in their own way, the Pilgrims and the founding fathers also sought to rise above history?that is, above the customary fate of other nations?firmly believing that America was a new start, a new order under the heavens...