Word: insights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most basic thing that needs to be addressed is this person, his pain or anger, her confusion or bewilderment. The church's teaching on this is clear: people with homosexual or heterosexual orientations are persons with an equal God-given dignity. Persons who deserve respect and understanding, honesty and insight. What does this mean concretely...
...mother, and her sister, whose answer to everything is writing a check. But Bergman settles for stale attempts at satire about city dwellers vs. suburbanites, trendy vs. square relations, rich vs. poor ones. The actors struggle to give the play life, but there is only one moment of insight. As Thomas' ever irreverent husband, Silver says, "I'm flip, which is another way of being shy." Perhaps that is Bergman's problem, and it is surely the problem of a weary genre: plenty of wisecracks but not much wisdom. W.A.H...
...admiration of colleagues, though some were dismayed by news from London last week. Redgrave, a pro-Palestinian activist, is urging British Actors' Equity to bar members from working in Israel. "I'm heartsickened she would take this stand," said Yellen. "It seems like the antithesis of the understanding and insight her performance was meant to promote...
Perhaps the best insight into Rifkin's complex mind and motivations appears in his 1983 work Algeny, a book that presents a creationist-like view of Darwin and makes it clear that Rifkin disapproves of tampering with the genes of any of God's creatures--from viruses to man. In Algeny, Biologist Stephen Jay Gould charged in a 1985 review, Rifkin "uses every debater's trick in the book to mischaracterize and trivialize his opposition, and to place his own dubious claims in a rosy light." The book, Gould concludes, is "a cleverly constructed tract of anti-intellectual propaganda masquerading...
Kurzman, writing with the unparalleled probity and insight of the National Inquirer, breathes the question "Is the rumor true?" regarding the special treatment of athletes at Harvard. Rumor? Kurzman obviously did a lot of legwork researching this editorial. Better meals? The Varsity Club training table abolished in 1969. Athletes eat the same meals as everyone else (although in much greater quantities). Tutoring, another perk Kurzman cites, is available to athletes only through the Study Council, the Writing Center, etc. While the employees of the Athletic Department are predominantly athletes, it also employs other students and senior citizens. Most athletes...