Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fleet of flags and a parade of nations, ancient drums and modern skydivers, the torch, the oath, 88 trumpeters, 144 robots, 2,400 pigeons, 13,600 athletes. Count...
...about American democracy as the apparent success of Bush's pledge offensive. What, after all, is American patriotism about? It's not about purple mountain majesties -- they have those in Switzerland. There was endless babble about "freedom" at the Republican Convention. But freedom doesn't mean reciting a loyalty oath on command. They have that kind of freedom in the U.S.S.R. American freedom means the right not to recite a loyalty oath if -- for reasons of religion, politics or simple perversity -- you don't want to. Bush may reject this vision of American freedom, although it is shared...
...trillion, while a growing army of beggars wandered urban streets and America's overburdened school systems prepared for the return of classes, the electorate was treated to the spectacle of George Bush forcing Michael Dukakis to debate whether elementary-school children should be compelled to recite a loyalty oath before they rattle off their ABCs...
...Hippocratic oath that all doctors take swears them to keep secret anything they "may see or hear in the lives of men which ought not to be spoken abroad." With the exception of AIDS, the American Medical Association has decreed. Meeting in Chicago, the A.M.A. House of Delegates approved a resolution asserting that doctors not only may, but must warn the sexual partners of patients infected with the AIDS virus if neither the patient nor public authorities can be persuaded...
...action is fast, furious and decidedly funky. Uniforms are not required, but style is vital, and the available styles are great. You can talk about it in resonant slang whose references to half pipes and acid drops, crackin' Ollies and catchin' air can be as arcane as a Rosicrucian oath. You can do it in the country or city, by a beach or across some asphalt. It's risky but not all that dangerous. And the cops don't like it. Perfect...