Word: expression
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...neighborhood barber shop on Cambridge Street, three blocks away from the city's nucleus of technological development, two longtime East Cambridge residents express ambivalence about the influx of new businesses and upscale developments...
...when the new Republican Congressional majority is telling us that our governing institutions should stop spending our money for purely ideological gestures that don't produce practical results, our own Republican Club wants Harvard to "tax" its students $135,000 in tuition money so it can "spend' it to express some unspecified (and unasked for) institutional support for the military, while gaining no practical benefit for Harvard students whatsoever. Wouldn't it make more practical and ideological sense for the Republican Club to show its support by contributing directly to the ROTC alumni fund itself? Better yet, why not offer...
...meets with editors to choose the week's subject, then turns to his Rolodex of 160 artists. He and the selected artist exchange sketches and notes via fax, and by 5 o'clock Friday afternoon a finished work of art has arrived in his office, usually by messenger or express delivery...
Does that mean, then, that the state may never legislate on questions of morality? If it must not ban abortion, is it also foreclosed from banning murder, arson, rape, theft? Certainly not, but it should act only under two conditions. The legislation must express an overwhelming moral consensus of the community-not 55% or even 75% but something like 95%. And the conduct in question must pose a serious threat to public order...
...those who have exchanged the pen for the image, the following caveat is worth bearing in mind: When good men cease to express their ideas in words, good men are doing nothing...