Word: eared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Baker dealing with the press and legislation. The true work was much more subtle. Baker softened the ideological edges and was father confessor to the outside world. Meese was the conservative theologian in the chapel, reassuring his flock that he was whispering the true gospel in Reagan's ear. The ubiquitous Deaver negotiated and held the peace between Baker and Meese...
This week, the CRR, dormant for ten years and long considered a relic of a bygone ear, will case judgement on more than 100 students who participated in last month's eight-hour sit-in at the 17 Quincy St. headquarters of Harvard's governing boards and the blockade tow weeks ago of a South African diplomat in the Lowell House Junior Common Room...
...worth the paper it is printed on and students--for all their optimistic talk of reform and a new ear--should not even grace the CRR with their presence. The University will conduct its disciplinary action regardless of what the students do. Let them take responsibility...
...Leave It to Beaver and Father Knows Best, The Cosby Show has amazingly little feel for--or even much interest in--the concerns of children. In the rare instances when the series deals with a serious issue facing youngsters, it falls back on sentimental contrivances that betray a tin ear for the way real children talk and act. On one episode, the Huxtables find a marijuana cigarette in their son Theo's school book. He claims the joint is not his; his parents believe him and consider the case closed. But Theo is not satisfied at this magnanimous vote...
...door to Anne's cousins, a recently widowed Orthodox Jew named Ezra Dinn and his young son, David. The sounds that come from the Dinn's house during the course of the summer, the Kaddish or prayer for the dead, the morning prayers and Sabbath hymns, catch Ilana's ear while she is sitting on the beach building sand castles or reading on the porch with her mother. Soon, the exoticism of the yarmulkas, the Sabbath rituals and the dietary restrictions, attract Ilana and draw her near so that when she returns to Brooklyn in the fall she begins...