Word: greate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lounge music may be to the symphony what Velveeta is to cheese, but hey, it's all part of what makes Las Vegas great. That is why 195 musicians are on strike against five casinos that want to replace them at least some of the time with audio tapes and synthesizers. The musicians are getting tremendous support within the community -- 87% of the callers to a local TV talk show applauded the strike. Performers like Rodney Dangerfield, Connie Francis and Dionne Warwick have canceled their shows. Lounge lizards like Sammy Davis Jr. and Tony Orlando have vowed not to cross...
...rise has been astonishing. As the daughter of Aung San, she was met with great deference, but her courage, bearing and oratory enabled her to build a following. The N.L.D., which she helped found last year, has grown to some 2 million dues-paying members in a country of 40 million people. During electrifying tours of the countryside, she disregarded the army guns that menaced her and her followers. And she has routinely flouted martial-law regulations prohibiting gatherings of more than five people. At one rally in Rangoon, soldiers aimed automatic weapons at the crowd that gathered to listen...
...devil--but not nearly as scary as what Bernays does with her women characters. The women of Bernays book, Anita in particular, are just downright unlikable. Bernays skillfully makes Anita into a stereotypical militant feminist--a hippie-turned-professor who uses gender-neutral terms and "carries around a great deal of anger...
...operation of a vague generality under fire, take the typical example, "Hume brought empiricism to its logical extreme." The question is asked, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?" Our hero replies by opening his essay with "David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If this be the spirit of the age in which he lived then he was representative of it." This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea of what Hume really said...
...explain, but it is easy to demonstrate. Let us take our earlier typical examination question, "Did the philosphical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?" The equivocator would answer it in this way: "Some people believe that David Hume was not necessarily a great philosopher because his thought was merely a reflection of conditions around him, colored by his own personality. Others, however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived. It is not a question of the cart before...