Word: latters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Devaney won immediately and spectacularly. After a 3-6-1 season in 1961, the Cornhuskers took nine of eleven games in Devaney's first year and triumphed 36-34 in the Gotham Bowl, over Miami, incidentally. Nebraska won the national championship in 1970 and repeated in 1971. The latter edition is commonly thought of as the best college football team of all (a panel of coaches so voted last year), and it is the mark by which the current group is being measured...
...what would they have protestors do--sit stonily silent without even applauding the end of the speech? Stand silently in robes with fingers pointing at the Secretary? Hiss in the grand old Harvard tradition? But there is a difference between a bad movie and a bad political regime. The latter, the Reagan Administration, needs to be opposed "by any means acceptable" to the majority of the population Heckling, without shutting the speaker down completely, surely does not go beyond basic liberal principles though if seems to have attended some liberal tastes...
...entry into the computer field symbolizes the company's gradual break since the late 1950s with its research-oriented beginnings. BBN now divides its financial statements into two halves: research and consulting, and computer and communications products. The future profits clearly lie within the latter sales-oriented sector, which has grown much quicker than its research counterpart in the last several years...
...there has been an open and often heated debate between people who are fearful of the deleterious effects of erotica and pornography on society and those who are more concerned about the dangers of censorship. The former point to, among other things, rape statistics in certain cities; while the latter point to, among other bits of evidence, the low crime rate and apparent boredom with the sex market among over-exposed Scandinavians. Given the lack of hard evidence behind either side, the debate will probably go unresolved for as long as Americans remain protected by the First Amendment...
...political ambiguities and you risk putting your audience to sleep; turn history into histrionics and you anger everyone with a special interest. It is to the credit of Hong Kong's Ann Hui, the 36-year-old director of Boat People, that she has chosen the latter course. Her film is not a meticulous precis of Vietnamese politics; it is a fast-paced, humanist melodrama centering on one family that, in the chaos of reconstruction that faced the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam after the fall of Saigon in 1975, finally determines to flee the country on an agonizingly...