Word: miree
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Attempting to get topical, Cope sinks into a mire of sentimentality and bombast. From Peggy' liner notes: "This classical mythical image of 'enlightenment' ironically mirrored the supposed death of the world through the Greenhouse Effect. It was a beautiful and absurd double-edged sword. This enormous Mother Earth was standing at the very edge of the highest cliff of Infinity--and was about to leap off...I had to make this record about the crazy situation...
...wisdom of going to war in the Persian Gulf. How quickly they fell. From the sordid hearings concerning the sexual proclivities of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to bounced checks at the House Bank and mismanagement at the House Post Office, this Congress thereafter rarely contrived to escape the mire of its own making. And when on occasion it did, its effectiveness was usually blunted by political posturing. No wonder a record 72 incumbents have announced plans to retire...
Harvard would be taking an important step beyond actively seeking out qualified minorities. And if the College justified the program in terms of correcting past wrongs, it would then mire itself in the logically complicated mud of relative deprivation. Who is really worse off--the disabled white student from a broken home, or the middle class Black student...
...woman who joins welfare with a family of four to adequately provide for her group, but penalizing her should she increase the size of the initial family. This is not reproductive Stalinism--it is simply a method by which we ensure that fewer children are born into the mire of poverty by selfish mothers...
...said that a crucial task of the dean of the graduate school is to meet the needs of individual students and individual faculty members. "It is a much mire hand crafted organization [than the College]," Fox says. "Faculty members must respond to each student's intellectual development...