Word: matter-of-fact
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Yovicsin has earned much of the derision he's received in the last year or so. It seems that the talented players he has helped make so matter-of-fact around here have helped cover up some of his other failings in recent years. But Yovicsin's probably gotten more criticism than he deserves...
Yovicsin has earned much of the derision he's received in the last year or so. It seems that the talented players he has helped make so matter-of-fact around here have helped cover up some of his other failings in recent years. But Yovicsin's probably gotten more criticism than he deserves...
...stop the bombing of North Viet Nam and start deescalation. To many, resignation is simply unrealistic. Responding to students who wanted him to resign as a protest against Nixon's Cambodian foray, Dr. Roger Egeberg, HEW's Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs, was totally matter-of-fact: "What on earth good do you think a resignation does?" he asked. "It would be like a moth in a flame, hardly remembered the next...
Reuben manages to convey enough common sense to make the book at least episodically informative. He reflects a matter-of-fact permissiveness about sexuality, and straightforwardly attacks a variety of common myths. But the book has probably infuriated as many readers as it has enlightened. "Human destiny," writes the author at one point, "is constant, relentless copulation"-unintentionally implying that sex is almost a reflex function, like bowel movement. Elsewhere, Reuben suggests that Coke is "the best douche available." REUBEN...
...LION IN THE MEADOW, by Margaret Mahy, illustrated by Jenny Williams (Watts; $4.95). Dazzling illustrations send a small boy, the year's most attractive lion, and the boy's matter-of-fact mother into cheerful orbit...