Word: musts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire...
...million adult aliens who sought amnesty under the program that ended last month now face a new hurdle: to remain in the U.S., they must pass tests in history and basic English. Since many are illiterate in their own language, this is no small obstacle. The Immigration and Naturalization Service has been slow to detail the requirements or offer textbooks, but Los Angeles, with 745,000 applicants, has jumped into the breach. The city has enrolled 30,000 adults, a number expected to reach 200,000 by July...
Some bigwig at Warner Bros. must have been traumatized by a move to the 'burbs; Funny Farm is Warner's third comedy in a year to deal with New Yorkers who find angst in New England. (Another film, Moving, exiled Richard Pryor from New Jersey to darkest Idaho.) But The Witches of Eastwick and Beetlejuice had infernal satire in mind and an intelligent eye for the grotesque. Funny Farm is mostly just a country store stocked with stale notions and antique gags: Mr. Bland Builds His Dream House...
...good Lord must love the nouveaux riches, because he made so many of them. He also seems to have provided a surfeit of writers to turn their freshly gilded lives into trashy novels. Among recent scribes who specialize in pressing readers' noses against the glass that separates them from the best of everything is Dominick Dunne (The Two Mrs. Grenvilles). His latest is sodden with the sort of unimaginative stock characters that have tumbled out of all the rich-and-famous pseudo fiction of the 1980s. The setting is Manhattan's Upper East Side, the pricey arena where old-moneyed...
...would seem more productive to understand the great university--say Harvard--as more of a democratizing than a democratic institution. There, ideally, are brought together peoples of all different ethnic, religious, racial and class backgrounds dedicated to what must be non-democratic principles: the pursuit of dispassionate truths and a healthy (and critical) respect for traditions and authorities that have earned our attention. Most will not stay on after their four years here, and therein lies the university's annual gift to the public world ever since enrollments opened up after World War II: a democratized, de-aristocricized corps...