Word: distinguished
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there is no indication that Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) would do any better. One must distinguish between Kennedy's liberal voting record and his unimpressive list of legislative achievements. It is naive to believe that Kennedy, who is far more liberal than Congress, would actually see many of his proposals become...
Wherever he goes, Reagan brings with him a deck of 4 by 6 prompting cards, printed neatly with parables and short quips. When cornered to speak on the issues, his answers are hard to distinguish from the one liners. Blockade Cuba. Give business a free hand. Forget about making deals with the Russians, Hang on to the Panama Canal. "We built it. We paid for it. It's ours and we are going to keep...
...maintains his image as a protean ladies' man from a fieldstone fortress in Los Angeles. It is equipped with battlements in the backyard, outdoor Jacuzzi baths built into a stone grotto and sprawling lawns where flamingos and pet peacocks roam. Mansion West, as the place is called to distinguish it from Hefner's 54-room Chicago playpen now on the block for $2.5 million, cost the company $3 million last year to operate. Hefner, however, pays an annual rent of only...
Arnold Harberger is now and has been for some time the paid flunky of a vicious fascist government which engages in torture, murder even outside its own borders, and wholesale economic immiseration of a large fraction of the people under its control. Harberger's disingenuous attempt to distinguish between the government of Chile and government-owned corporations may impress the legal mind, but it strikes most of us as a distinction without a difference. The fact, which cannot be evaded by childish sophistries, is that Harberger directly and through his students and disciples is a principal architect of Chile...
Hugh Rogers, 20, lives with his divorced mother on the flat fringes of a city that is never named, perhaps because he cannot distinguish it from "all the suburbs, the duplex development motorhome supermarket parking lot used cars carport swingset white rocks juniper imitation bacon bits special gum wrappers where in five different states he had lived the last seven years." His astronomical address, 14067½-C Oak Valley Road, mocks the idea of a coherent community. His job as a checker in a nearby supermarket by the freeway leads nowhere, and neither, as far as he can tell, does...