Word: mindedness
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The students themselves, however, retort that accessibility, not some high-minded definition of "proper scholarship," is the goal.
But the test also takes society right into the brave new world of genetic screening, raising the specter of eugenically minded parents throwing out embryo after embryo in search of the "perfect" child. And while it promises to reduce the number of abortions later in pregnancy, it is already drawing...
That dirty trick was planned for the 1858 Senate campaign, in which Lincoln was running against Stephen Douglas. People who remember that race often praise the high-minded discourse of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. They should keep in mind what Lincoln was planning for the back alleys of the campaign...
Given this record of double-dealing, why do Americans admire Lincoln? He is not admirable because he was "Honest Abe" but because he was devious. He knew there were only minimal gains that could be made at each stage of his course in checking and then reversing the slave power...
Wright's life-span alone is astonishing: his career extended from the beginning of the Gilded Age to the last days of the American Century, from the sod house to the shopping mall. Born in rural Wisconsin to a charming, feckless musician-preacher and a high-strung, single-minded mother...