Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...amazed to read that the leader of the Harvard student body, Chair of the Undergraduate Council Kenneth E. Lee, could express pride in his disfiguring of University furniture (February...
What has happened at Harvard to common civility and respect for common property when the leader of the students can express such sentiments for destruction? How can Lee express interest in the commonwealth when his actions are so contrary to common courtesy? Does not Lee recognize, at the very least, that his defacing of University property must cost money to fix, money which comes from tuition, endowment and contributions? Does Lee not recognize that monies spent to fix properties defaced and damaged by students cannot be used for socially beneficial puposes...
...typical Monday morning, the neatly dressed mothers gather on living- room sofas for a counseling session led by Thomas. Longtime residents express unfettered affection for their tall, slim mentor, dressed today in a red jumpsuit, brown tweed jacket, black high heels and silver bracelets. "She doesn't judge you from what others say, she judges you from what you say and do," says Monique Gray, a Mandela House veteran of one year. "You can't fool % Minnie," four-month resident Patricia Rodgers admits...
Brownmiller attempts a novelist's overview, tracing the domestic tyrannies that slowly escalate to mutilation and death. But her squabbling adults have little more personality than Punch and Judy, and their maltreated daughter is a mere shadow. Waverly Place takes 294 pages to express what W.H. Auden did in a quatrain: "I and the public know/ What all schoolchildren learn,/ Those to whom evil is done/ Do evil in return...
...contrast to South Africa, the Church document cites the United States as a place where society has "found increased vitality in the melting pot cultures." But the document also points to latent racial tensions in American society that express themselves when "exaggerated nationalism" degenerates into "xenophobia or even racial hatred...