Word: enlistment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brinkley wrote in Talk magazine that Gore was pressured into serving because his father's re-election bid might be jeopardized by a son who didn't enlist...
...book, like his, that goes farther and accuses irony of corrupting public spirit goes too far. Cowardice, tact and irresponsibility all, as Purdy points out, often enlist irony in disavowing publicly a private conviction. For example, someone might say, "Why do I want to work in investment banking, you said? Oh, for the safe money, of course." Most people, after all, don't want to get caught holding an unfashionable belief. What's the news? But my purpose here is not to defend an everyday kind of hypocrisy. Nor, on the other hand, is it to defend the high tradition...
Shai R. Shay '01, who attended yesterday's press conference, said he will work to enlist Harvard students in the boycott...
Denmark Groover III '69-76, a classmate of Gore's who left Harvard to enlist in the military, had a changing influence on Gore's opposition...
Gill praised Gore for having the courage to enlist, especially considering former Tennessee Senator Albert Gore Sr.'s public opposition to the war and the anti-war sentiment on campus...