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Some have tried to separate the slurs against the European students in the House from those against homosexuals. I wish that I could do this, but I fear there is a connection that has a sadly familiar echo from the American past. There is a "know nothing" ring to the association of "weird" with "foreign," "pretentious" with "artistic" and "eccentric" with "homosexual...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On Tolerance | 5/18/1981 | See Source »

...speech, in which he pharaonically denied wrongdoing and told the nation about his wife's "respectable Republican cloth coat" and his daughters' pet dog. It worked; the country loved it; Ike kept him. Years later, his painful writhings during Watergate were ultimately unavailing, but there was some echo of the Papyrus of Nu in Nixon's "I am not a crook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Why and When and Whether to Confess | 5/18/1981 | See Source »

...substitute. But it would provide more funds for many social programs. The lure for conservative Democrats is that Jones' proposal includes only a one-year tax cut and projects a much smaller budget deficit of $24.7 billion for 1982. Reagan, however, insisted that this plan was just "an echo of the past rather than a benchmark for the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reagan's Budget Battle | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

...different types of pneumonia bacteria. The prospects seemed bleak. But scientists dosed the animal with penicillin and began serving it squid-a sperm whale favorite. Soon it started "sitting" higher in the water, raising its head and emitting the clicking sounds that sperms seem to use for communication or echo locating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Squid Pro Quo | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

...majority of Crimson players echo captain Al Halliday, who said, "We know we won't be embarrassed," and added that "if we play up to our capabilities and the matches come down to aggressiveness and loose play. I can't see anyone beating us." Prop Keith Cooper expressed the same sentiments when he said, "The key to winning will be aggressiveness and doing some assassinating...

Author: By Steven J. Rosston, | Title: Ruggers Vie for National Championship | 5/8/1981 | See Source »

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