Word: grahame
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...number of intellectuals, businessmen and political leaders who gave eugenics their blessing or fervid support. The list begins with Darwin, who in The Descent of Man praised his cousin Galton and decreed that genius "tends to be inherited." Other champions included the young Winston Churchill, George Bernard Shaw, Alexander Graham Bell, John Maynard Keynes, Theodore Roosevelt and the usually taciturn Calvin Coolidge, who declared during his vice presidency that "Nordics deteriorate when mixed with other races...
...admire their pluck. Last week four actors with combative reputations lent their thuggish personalities to the bully pulpit. Expressing his antipathy to impeachment, JACK NICHOLSON appeared at a Los Angeles rally with Barbra Streisand and Ted Danson, while ROBERT DENIRO lobbied Republican Congressmen Jim Ramstad of Minnesota and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina on behalf of the President. Meanwhile, in a Los Angeles courtroom, the voluminous MARLON BRANDO joined the volatile SEAN PENN to protest prosecutors' efforts to send former Black Panther Geronimo Pratt back to jail. Pratt was released last year after spending 27 years behind bars...
...about as international as the World Series (baseball, for you non-Americans). That narrow viewpoint was surprising in a magazine that normally provides a global outlook from an American perspective. If TIME aspires to be a truly international publication, it must look beyond the shores of the U.S. GRAHAM ROBERTS Singapore...
...pillory your opponents, play-act morality and audition for your 15 minutes of cable fame. People not only choose sides, they also choose roles. Representative Bob Inglis, raw from his November loss to Senator Fritz Hollings, returned as the voice of the Lord, the Old Testament one. Representative Lindsey Graham's early turn as Hamlet turned out to be a search for an unoccupied spot on the opinion spectrum that might land him on Meet the Press. He found a "legal technicality" that allowed him to vote against one article, earning him the valuable CONSERVATIVE BUCKS HIS PARTY headline...
...read the whole book, which tends to be the case in most book challenges, and Cabral was ultimately cleared in a committee review. "If the kids had not been supportive, I would have left teaching," he says. "It was worse than I could have imagined." Notes Patricia Graham, former dean of Harvard's school of education: "A lot of teachers say, 'I'm not going to deal with this; we'll just stick to Robinson Crusoe...