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...want to embarras readers who are members of such groups. But before you permanently ban Bloom County from your pages, I suggest that you read its November 14, 1982 Sunday installment, in which assorted characters begin to complain about the things they find offensive and finally conclude, "My gosh...LIFE is offensive!!" (Opus the Penguin then notes that they are suffering from "offensensitivity") You might also take a look at the latest issue of Daedalus in which Stanley Fish and Wayne C. Booth debate with considerably subtletythe question of how one decided whether a humorist is being ironic or merely...
...When he does reject an adviser's views, he usually tries to let the subordinate down as gently as possible. For example, when Secretary of State George Shultz urged him to attend Leonid Brezhnev's funeral in Moscow and talk to the new Soviet leader, Yuri Andropov, Reagan replied, "Gosh, is this the time to reach out on substance when they have their interregnum going on?" Comments Baker: "He makes clear that you don't lose with him just because you lose on a position...
...network reports. "Hey, look at that!" he said excitedly when an exit poll showed that half of the voters felt the President's program needed more time to work. This view became the prism through which he interpreted the night's returns. Other than a few individual disappointments ("Gosh darn it," he muttered when Nebraska Governor Charles Thone lost), Reagan was satisfied with the results. "There was nothing to suggest a need to change the basic course," said Counsellor Edwin Meese, expressing Reagan's sentiments...
...Ronald Reagan. The President has been slow to educate himself in even the basics of Middle East policy. One aide recalls that Reagan recently examined a map of the area, measured the distance between points in Israel and Lebanon with his fingers according to the mileage scale, and exclaimed, "Gosh, they really are close!" Lacking a firm understanding of Middle East politics and history, the President maintained the instinctive sympathy toward Israel that he has displayed throughout his political career, and his aides swallowed their growing doubts...
...politicians are saying, gosh if I don't get moving on this, "I won't be re-elected," she added...