Word: failed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Incidently, AT&T would be as happy with non-thinking students as with the tail Thinker pictured in its ad: customers who fail to indicate an alternate choice for long distance carrier will automatically remain with AT&T, and they won't even get T-shirts...
...Become a Writer" stands slightly apart from these stories, a hilarious account of a writer's development, which ranks as a small comic masterpiece: "First try to be something, anything else... Fail miserably. It is best if you fail at an early age--say, fourteen. Early, critical disillusionment is necessary so that at fifteen you can write long haiku sequences about thwarted desire." But in the middle of all the wisecracking remain passages that ring out with such truth that they communicate directly to the reader the pleasure of literary creation, "those brief, fragile, untested moments of exhilaration when...
Congressmen will fail in their crucial duty to separate the wheat from the chaff in these Pentagon dreambooks if every time they attempt to bring the Administration back to earth their political opponents brand them doves. The again, they might grow tired of the Administration's claim that only a sky's-the-limit missiles buildup budget can effectively communicate our seriousness to the Soviets and become bearish on defense. Either way, the country is not likely to get the affordable national security we need, which is just what happens when reason tails to govern...
...their original letter to the American coaches, the English university presidents expressed the conviction that "such international sports between the two leading universities of Great Britain and the United States could not fail to rouse the highest interest of all lovers of amateur athletics...
...restate the facts about apartheid and refuge the illogic of the University's rhetorical evasions, our words cease to "express the offense, fail to communicate the ongoing demolition of a people. As South African police set dogs loose on schoolchildren and as Black activists get taken away in the middle of the night, we at Harvard get bogged down in rhetorical diversions, "progress" reports, committee minutes, media ploys, the whole debilitating bureaucratization of the debate. The issue loses its moral cogency...