Word: distinguished
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there is something a little too clean about Galbraith's life, the unwanted fat comes away from the meat with too much precision. We learn much of Galbraith's political struggles but little about what he was ultimately fighting for; it seems almost as if he were trying to distinguish his work from the memoirs of another occasional Harvard professor, The Education of Henry Adams, published publicly in 1918, dwelt perhaps excessively on the soul of the nation it portrayed, but from Galbraith comes too little about that nation's--and his own--soul...
...majority has attempted to draw the line at discrimination against women and failed because there is no fair way to distinguish between one man's art and another's trash--unless you assume that you are more intelligent than your fellow man, or at least that you know what is best...
...battle: "I kept thinking, 'If only I could talk to the cocksucker firing at me, we'd get along, everything would be all right.' I just had this overwhelming feeling that...we're just pawns in this fucking thing, throwing the shit at each other." These soldiers seem to distinguish something about Vietnam that set it apart from other wars. Unfortunately, they don't explain what it is. So we must be tantalized by the idea (probably correct, I think) that the ugliness of Vietnam was unique for those who fought it. The answer (if there...
...must remember that preppy fashion's value lies in the monetary symbol of its diverse logos. The sole charm of a Lacoste shirt is the Lacoste. The Handbook confirms this: "Subtleties of cut, weave, or color distinguish the merely good from the Prep. A small percentage of polyester in oxford cloth shirt of a lapel that's a quarter of an inch too wide can make all the difference." Only that idle elite can afford to spend time learning to detect such trivial differences and can squander money paying for them. What a pity that the rest...
Inadequate Equipment: The power supply is interruptible, much of the hardware is outdated, and the software is non-standard. This makes the early-warning system unreliable, slow and unable to distinguish the signals of a real launch from many other signals...