Word: minde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Axtell did not mind losing his BATmobile. "I'm sure it's not going to affect our arrests," he said. "The people we put in it probably don't even know there's a bat on it, they're so drunk...
...same post in Jerusalem. In Lebanon, Friedman was "the only full-time American Jewish reporter." In Israel he was not. Solitude had its comforts, he found. "People assumed that if you were in Beirut you couldn't possibly be Jewish," he writes. "After all, what Jew in his right mind would come to Beirut?" But members of his faith knew what Friedman was, and some were quick to interpret fact finding as heresy or treason. Why? The author answers, "I had helped to inform the Jews of New York City of the less-than-heroic behavior of the Israeli army...
...Keep in mind that Bok is president of Harvard University, not Harvard College. Even though his office is smack-dab in the middle of the Yard, Bok runs the entire mammoth institution, which includes a $4 billion endowment and eight graduate schools...
Burn an American flag? The patriotic mind recoils. Reverence for the flag is ingrained in every schoolchild who has quailed at the thought of letting it touch the ground, in every citizen moved by pictures of it being raised at Iwo Jima or planted on the moon, in every veteran who has ever heard taps played at the end of a Memorial Day parade, in every gold-star mother who treasures a neatly folded emblem of her family's supreme sacrifice...
Even then, even among admiring critics, there were grumblings about his reluctance to develop a broader repertoire. "The young man will have to make up his mind," said one, "whether he wants to be an artist or a flesh-and- blood jukebox." Though Cliburn went on performing as many as 100 concerts a year for the next two decades (which did include some Mozart, Chopin, Prokofiev), the authoritative New Grove Dictionary has summed up his fading career by saying that "he could not cope with the loss of freshness; his . . . playing took on affectations . . . He stopped performing...