Word: filterable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Occasional glimpses of Christian courage do filter through. The study criticizes a troublesome archbishop in Vladimir and Suzdal for ordering his clergymen "to preach more frequently and not be lazy." Pointing to a disturbing revival of traditional holiday visits by priests, the author of the report lauds one council functionary in Tomsk who "took steps to curtail such activities" after he noted that Lenten visits created a "sensation" in villages and provoked "unwholesome interest" among unbelievers...
...skip and jump variety, rather like a discarded thought from Agnes de Mille's brain. To save the saddest for last, much of the show's score sounds like an aside from Sondheim. Fragmented strains from Pacific Overtures, A Little Night Music, Company and Follies filter through the air like aural ghosts. One ballad, Not a Day Goes By, beautifully captures the bittersweet mystery of love, and the single smash number of the musical, Good Thing Going, has the stamp of permanence about it. Frank Sinatra, who has impeccable judgment in such matters, has already recorded...
That, too, will wait for The Game. "There isn't really much of a similarity between two years ago and now, just that Yale is undefeated," Callinan said, 20 minutes before the news of Princeton's win would filter down to the press room...
...findings will filter out, in phone calls to Reagan and Secretary of State Alexander Haig, in his own writing and speeches. The trip was his; his idea, his arrangements. The flap about who knew, or didn't know, where he was going and what he was doing is ridiculous, meaningless. Nixon brushes by the subject as he focuses on a larger problem...
Sowell has much more up his sleeve than cataloguing the folklore of American history. Flashes of ideology filter through his vision of society, as blandly as he paints it. His is the ideology of the free market, one where different ethnic groups advance into the higher realms of society and economy only by playing by the rules. No one will deny hard work and perseverance as signposts to the path of success, but the world of Sowell and other "human capital" economists requires much more. The vital ingredient to playing the game in ethnic America has been investing in skills...