Word: murrayism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, the Greek Chorus, F. Murray Abraham in particular, shines as one of the film's few genuinely funny elements. They get the smart and sassy lines, and use them to their full effect, without overkill. If only the chorus was featured more throughout the movie, it just might be worth it to sit through everyone else's mudanity...
...that bigotry sells books. New York City's Free Press has published a long list of first-rate works on political and social issues by writers from every point on the spectrum, yet so far the only blockbuster among them (with 400,000 copies in print) has been Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein's The Bell Curve, which argues that blacks are genetically stupider than whites. On the jacket of D'Souza's latest, the Free Press high-mindedly says its publication will further expand "the range of acceptable discourse about race" by "setting forth the principles that should guide...
...very least, such a policy change would significantly reduce the number of out-of-wedlock births, a fact confirmed by a study done by Charles A. Murray '65. Murray's study showed that a 10 percent reduction in welfare benefits for unwed mothers would result in a corresponding five percent decline in illegitimacy, and larger cuts would produce an even sharper decline in illegitimacy. Admittedly, such a policy change would force many unwed mothers to give their children up to the state, but in the long run the benefits to society would more than outweigh the costs. The welfare system...
...team," junior Megan Murray said, "it was the best we've played over the last couple of years...
...Returnees: Megan Murray '97, Suzanne Ranere '98, Madge Roberts...