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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hockey: The Bruins are a good team. But,let's face it, the pro game just isn't any funanymore. A bunch of guys banging each otheragainst the boards as the crowd screams for blood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spectator Paradise | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

...course, Bork's deep moral skepticism means that the victory he affords the majority has no moral force or validity over others. His judicial philosophy isn't informed by an coherent democratic theory that allows him at least to claim that its right for majorities to rule. Bork's formulation thus is no more than a slightly sophisticated version of the doctrine that might makes right...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: The Self-Heating Jurist | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

...judging. The correct philosophy is to judge according to the intent of the / legislature or the intent of the Constitution's framers. Judges are overwhelmingly from a very narrow segment of society, and if they begin to read their own ideals into the law, then most of society isn't represented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trying Out Ideas | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

...pastimes. There isn't much time these days, but when there is an hour here or there, I turn to reading. My first love is Vietnamese literature, but I also enjoy Victor Hugo, Balzac, Mark Twain, Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Interview with Viet Nam's Nguyen Van Linh | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

...folk sculpture -- it is too self-regarding for that -- but it enacts the illusion of folksiness. One suspects he might not know what to do if he stopped this beaming and lapel grabbing. "It's almost subversive," Grooms remarks in the catalog, "if I do something that isn't jokey." To him, perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Corn-Pone Cubism, Red-Neck Deco | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

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