Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What saves Thomas Bender's history of New York intellectuals is that it is not just a history. The chapters on colonial New York make mountains out of intellectual molehills, as Bender imbues small social clubs--with grandiose missions and Latin mottos--with meaning well beyond what they deserve.
Ault is one of three Government employees who were chosen as beneficiaries of a demonstration program in which workers can donate time off to colleagues who have lengthy illnesses or who need to stay home to care for stricken relatives. Last week Congress held hearings to discuss expanding the program...
FOOTNOTE: *Though the Greek word for this type of ship is trieres, it is more commonly known as a trireme, derived from the Latin triremis, meaning having three banks of oars.
Such acts used to be swept under the run; everyone used to pretend everyone else was well-meaning. After all, when Jackie Robinson belted one racist opponent, it was only because he had twice ignored the player's taunts. "I had no cheeks left to turn," he said. Baseball players...
In the meantime, independent counsel Lawrence Walsh continues his separate investigation into the possibility of criminal prosecution of some of the affair's main figures. Nine of the public witnesses at the hearings testified under grants of immunity, meaning their words cannot be used against them in a future prosecution...