Word: exhortations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these methods and extremes can be avoided with less apathy and more activity from the public. The only way to increase donations--and keep them morally pure-- is to exhort the public to fight their apathy and consent to donate...
Snow's Mendel is at first deceptively normal, with his friendly voice and yellow cardigan, but a psychiatrist whose idea of therapy is to leap up, click his heels together, and exhort everyone to "feel alright for the rest of your life" cannot be the most conventional of physicians...
...must ask why the Council has suddenly found it necessary to buy a large ad whose only purpose is to exhort students to come to meetings and compete with elected members for speaking time. Guests can't vote at the meetings, after all. Could it be that the Council has fallen into disfavor? Is this part of the Re-evaluation Committee's strategy to gain acceptance...
...text says, "There is no reason to believe that things must remain the way they are." This statement should first be applied to the Council itself. The organization does not have to exhort students to join in its "crusade"; the Council is ultimately accountable to students anyway. If undergraduates didn't offer their $20 donations--yes, donations, though they were jokingly called "tax dollars" at the Re-evaluation Committee meeting--the Council would have no money. If you don't think the Council is doing its job, send an unmistakable message by withdrawing the part of your $20 earmarked...
...call to life. They sing of vulnerability and pain, but unlike so many moanings of the Cure and The Smiths, they also emphasize humanity's strength and capacity for change. "Climb out of your well/ It's not so deep/ Price of living life is not steep,' they exhort in "Protect...