Word: injection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most politically active Baby Boomers are true-believer conservatives. "When I went to college, all my professors were insipid liberals," says John Buckley, 29, who went from being a rock critic for the Soho News in Manhattan to conservative Congressman Jack Kemp's press secretary. "The only way to inject any energy was to rebel from the right." Says Peggy Noonan, 35, who voted for George McGovern in 1972 but now writes speeches for President Reagan: "We are idealists without illusions." Of course, many more Baby Boomers--indeed, the large and silent majority--show little or no sign of social...
...QUINCY PRODUCTION, directed by April Limbaugh, proves unable to flesh out these powerful events into convincing drama. Failing to inject personality into their characters, the actors seemed to think that the verse could speak for itself. Reading Antigone is one thing, but on stage the actors need to convey a sense of the people on whom the tragedy has fallen...
...trying to show that academic feuds are not just intellectual bickering, but rather are battles against power structures that perpetuate inequalities and injustices in the social order. These are battles to politicize legal education, to inject debate about illegitimate hierarchy and oppression, about minorities and women and their relation to the law, into the calm logic of legal analysis--in more concrete terms, to get a Black professor onto the Law School faculty...
...treatment, according to the doctors, increases the number of the body's lymphocytes, or disease-fighting white blood cells, present in the area of a cancer. Using a wellknown protein substance, the doctors said they were able to artificially stimulate the growth of lymphocytes and then inject the cells back into the blood stream to fight the tumor...
Coles said that in class his goal is to "connect theories to what is palpable, to what is part of our lives," adding that he tried to inject a view of the real world into the Harvard community, which he described as "all us busy intellectuals, all too busy and all too self-absorbed...