Word: meres
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...Reagan Administration could, and did, take satisfaction from the majority's view that the mere fact of discrimination in American life is not in itself a constitutionally sufficient reason for resorting to an affirmative-action remedy. "It is a terrific opinion in our judgment," said Justice Department Spokesman Terry Eastland. But after reviewing the splintered opinions, most experts agreed with Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. She concluded that the Justices have "forged a degree of unanimity" on a key rebuff to a much bruited claim of the Reagan Administration. It has argued that affirmative action is appropriate only to remedy...
Both candidates have stronger credentials than a mere appeal to gender. Boosalis, 66, who won 44% of the vote against six opponents, was mayor of Lincoln for eight years, and as director of the department on aging has developed a strong constituency among Nebraska's large elderly population. Orr, 47, who defeated seven opponents with 39% of the vote, was the only G.O.P. candidate with statewide experience. Said she: "This is an opportunity to tell that what we have in Nebraska are open-minded people." The women will vie for the job now held by Bob Kerrey, 42, former companion...
Stoss produced nothing, it seems, in the last ten years of his life. Yet this unrespectable old man was capable of dazzling technical feats which, far from being mere Last-Supper-carved-on-a-peachstone declamation, were filled with grave and intense emotion. As with Bernini a century later, we do Stoss a big injustice if we suppose his intimidating virtuosity was in some way hollow. "A miracle in wood," wrote the 16th century Italian art chronicler Giorgio Vasari on seeing one of Stoss's carvings that had found its way to Florence. It was done "with such subtlety...
...mere mention of history and cultural conditions is regarded by many critics as arrogant, elitist and racist. "What makes you think," say those critics, "that only advanced and educated people are capable of democracy? The poor and the ignorant also yearn for freedom, and why should we assume that they are not capable of free government...
Much of that audience will probably be reading Fatherhood. They will get what they expect, including a fair measure of out-loud laughs. Cosby is still mystified about the motives for baby making ("a kind of erotic arts and crafts"), and he disdains overtly proud dads who believe "mere fertilization is a reason for the high five." Interfamilial wars particularly stir his | juices. "Always end the name of your child with a vowel," he counsels, "so that when you yell, the name will carry." The generations must ever gap. "No matter how he talks, a father cannot sound...