Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact that it was issued at all. Said Conservative Jesuit Joseph Fessio, director of the St. Ignatius Institute at the University of San Francisco: "If the Catholic Church has a view of sexuality that is correct, then the most compassionate thing the church can do is to clearly express that unambiguously. To let people think they can be authentically human and yet live a life-style that is different from the teaching of the church is really harmful to them...
...television and aggressive behavior. Wilkins approvingly quotes Cornell Psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner, who once said: "The danger of TV lies not so much in the behavior it produces as in the behavior it prevents." Some examples: communication between parent and child, the capacity to entertain oneself, the ability to express ideas logically and feelings sensitively. Television, suggests Wilkins, does not sever children from reality, it becomes their reality, more vivid than the outside world to which it supposedly refers...
...from my experience in trying to brief him on matters of supreme importance, I was very disturbed at his lack of interest. The issues were the 15 or 20 most important subjects that I as President could possibly pass on to him. His only reaction of substance was to express admiration for the political circumstances in South Korea that let President Park close all the colleges and draft all the demonstrators. That was the only issue on which he came alive...
...sometimes not at ease with large groups. I acknowledge those characteristics freely. They have been pointed out to me often enough to convince me. I can think on my feet. A poll of oldtime White House correspondents ranked me first in handling press conferences. It is hard to express effectively all sides of a complicated issue, and I tend to do that. It is much easier to take one simplistic side of an issue and express it clearly. Reagan does that very well. But there is no way in the long run to avoid the complexity of complex issues...
...probably want to sidestep the Hollywood years. You don't need any more "Bedtime for Bonzo" revivals. But why not capitalize on your undeniable success as a former me ocre actor-turned-corporate spokesman? Underscore the point by making campaign stops with Karl Malden of American Express Travelers Checks and Chrysler lover Ricardo Montalban at your side. Throw in Lorne Greene and his kennel of Alpo enthusiasts, and you've got a team as American as pre-packaged apple...