Word: isn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Government is designed to cope with what isn't always a very comprehensible or just world. By capitulating to our need for understanding we prevent ourselves from engaging in constructive governmental efforts. Unless we are willing to accept the tragedy as exactly that, superstition, not common sense, will reign in politics...
...Mann's family had to be acted out with comic melodrama. But, as it has often been said, it takes very good acting to portray bad acting well. And unfortunately, the actors portraying the Mann family and their various persecutors aren't quite that good, so that the audience isn't sure how much of the bad acting is intentional. Indeed, it is a relief when the melodrama is dropped, and Eleanor opts for more sincere tones...
Local politicians grant that O'Neill may be an important asset for Harvard, in that she helps the University understand the needs of the community, but they do not acknowledge her influence helping the community understand Harvard. "The University's quiver isn't filled with arrows of community achievement, but Jackie has been careful to involve people--she has managed to have an impact on Harvard," says City Councilor Francis H. Duehay...
Sometimes being the first in your dorm to own a computer isn't such a neat idea. Take it from the Happy Hacker whose dinosaur Radio Shack TRS-80 (circa. 1980) keeps getting offers from museum curators and plastic scrap dealers...
WHAT GIVES? Isn't the drug menace the topic of concerned conversation at PTA meetings across the land? Apparently not. Reports of the electorate's preoccupation with drugs seem to have been greatly exaggerated...