Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campaign, party leaders have indulged in some frank selfcriticism. "Serious problems" exist, admitted the release that announced the purge. "Some party members have a vague and confused idea about the basic principles and superiority of the socialist system and about the bright Communist future . . . some turn a blind eye to anti-Marxist and antisocialist ideas." Even today, continued the anonymous critic, "some party members . .. openly violate regulations and discipline, sabotage state plans, vio late state economic policies and illegally retain taxes and profits...
...course few boys play games in the public eye, especially games which kill 62 pilots in 32 weeks. As one astronaut candidate explains. "Whoever survives this competition is destined to become a legend in his own time. "The Right Stuff takes a humorous and often moving look not only at the strengths of legends but also at the weaknesses of these men. And the movie's strength results in part from its ability to fuse the seven men into one, a team that overlooks its individual differences and concentrates on its similarities in order to overcome a common danger. Glenn...
...which students are introduced, and not be too unhappy if in combination they do not cover what is now embraced within a concentration, let alone the almost boundless horizons of academic and intellectual cultures. Ideally, a colleague group in a department should be recruited as a team with an eye to a congeries of compatable subspecialties. Several members might take part in the General Education program as well as in helping create a less fragmented, inevitably more selective, field of concentration...
...turned out, it was also a tune of deep embarrassment. Hours before her keynote speech on Friday, Thatcher accepted "with regret" the eye-catching resignation of Trade and Industry Secretary Cecil Parkinson, architect of the election landslide and one of her closest political advisers. Parkinson, 52, fell from grace two weeks ago when he announced that Sara Keays, his private secretary and longtime lover, would soon bear his child. He added that he would not divorce his wife of 26 years to marry Keays, although he admitted that he had promised to do so. The disclosure prompted a number...
...Unknown Patton is not even intellectually seminal. The flaws of its structure, and the lopsidedness of its construction, might be in some way excused by an exciting new interpretation of Patton's persona. What emerges is instead a tired rehashing of the Patton story, written with an uncritical eye in an unfortunate literary style. Despite the title, one gains from The Unknown Patton no new understanding of this dashing, irritating but always effervescent man. Most or all of the material presented has been seen before, and Province's running commentary lacks the intellectual backing for any kind of credibility. Province...