Word: mindedness
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In a state that looks upon politics as public amusement, his bon temps style played well -- at least while oil profits let the good times roll. But, as an unusually subdued Edwin Edwards noted, "it has to end sometime." After finishing second in an open primary on Oct. 24, he...
My wife believes very strongly in capital punishment. She's willing to cut hands off to punish thieving...She's quite bloody minded.
But not to Himmelfarb, a conservative-minded professor at the City University of New York, who specializes in 19th century history (Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians). Her sonorous scorn for the excesses and rigidities of the new history might win the approval of the ghost of Carlyle. She loathes...
Consequently, I don't think "broad-minded" Harvard did us or the country any favors with the Job Fair. It looks to me as though the college wants to service a narow segment of the economy and ignore everything else.
The roots of the struggle go back to well before Israel's birth as a modern state in 1948. Many Orthodox Jews opposed the Zionist movement, which, starting in the late 19th century, called for a return to Palestine. For them, ^ there could be no Israeli state until the appearance...