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...hunger. "We were poor when I was young, but the difference then was the Government didn't come around telling you you were poor," he says, harking back to the tradition of community help from sources other than the Government. "My mother, God rest her soul, was the kindest, God-loving person I have ever known. She was always finding some family or someone that needed help and that we could help, and yet we were poor . . . I think back on all the places along the line where somebody stepped out of line and helped--and it's always been...
...never thought we were a bad team," Shattuck said. "But all throughout the season the kindest category they could put us in was up and down. Even after we won five games in a row, all you heard was 'Harvard, the up-and-down men's soccer team...
...18th century it was considered chic to spend an evening at the local lunatic asylum, laughing at the inmates. In the 20th century you can be asked to leave a dinner party for making a joke about the mentally disturbed or deficient. Perhaps the kindest thing to be said about our century is that it has managed to make this modest improvement in manners. Perhaps the kindest way to describe Crackers is to say that it is informed by the older sensibility. Louis Malle's remake of the unfunny 1958 Italian comedy Big Deal on Madonna Street has gained...
...went on that way for more than a month. I wallowed in guilt. I thought: How did this happen to me? What about everybody else with the same track record? It took me six months to realize that I ought to jubilate and that it's the kindest, most remarkable thing...
...kindest explanation for Reagan's gender gap comes from those women who, like Congresswoman Snowe, try to see it as a generation gap. Says Snowe: "He's just not capable of understanding the problems of today's women." But groups like the Women's Truth Squad on Reagan of the National Organization for Women take a harsher view, with their detailed indictments of Reagan's positions on women's issues. NOW cites Reagan's plans to reduce affirmative-action requirements and equal-employment regulations, his opposition to programs designed to produce educational equity...