Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...consciously Southern Senator Sam, by turns puckish and preachy, helped reassure Americans that there were still people in Washington with moral bearings solidly fixed. He retired from politics soon afterward and spent the past decade down home in Morganton, making forays out to lecture and to film an American Express commercial. Ervin, 88, died in North Carolina last week of respiratory failure brought on by a combination of ailments...
...Nogales is scheduled to file the bankruptcy petition this week, which would protect U.P.I. from its creditors while it puts its finances in order. Any plan then must be approved by a federal court. U.P.I. is expected to continue its efforts to persuade its major creditors (AT&T, American Express, RCA) to accept stock in return for forgiving about $17 million in debts...
Most importantly, no speaker at any time "openly admitted that an abortion kills a human being, but said that abortion must nonetheless remain legal." One member of the audience did express a view, and I'm sure many women feel similarly; that woman, however, was not RUS-sponsored. What the speakers did emphasize is that there is not now and has never been a national consensus, not an agreement among and within different religions, as to when human life begins i,e., at what point abortion can be considered killing a child. The point was also made that the real...
While a policy of civil disobedience need not be pursued, it is important that Harvard undergraduates get fired-up about something they care about, and that they express this discontentment in a way which will produce results. Activism and pragmatism are not mutually exclusive entities. Every Harvard student, with or without a cause to fight for, should realize this. At many other campuses, pragmatic activism has replaced apathy. The same should happen at Harvard...
...absorbing book. Unfortunately, Mallon's text leaves us without any resounding insight into the curious business of diary-keeping and his prose is, at best, bland, and more often intrusive for its carelessness, its cliches and its poor attempts at being witty. For example, "Boswell was a veritable American Express card; Johnson could never have left home without it." Or, more seriously, and perhaps more typical of the sort of casual turn of phrase that irritatingly litters Mallon's text: when remarking on a sentence from the adolescent diaries of the German psychologist, Karen Horney, Mallon writes, "One can hear...