Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...South Africa--is at the core of the divestment struggle. Support for divestment within the community has grown substantially in the last year. A recent Undergraduate Council referendum indicated that two-thirds of the student body favors divestment. It is an issue for which right and wrong is obvious. If community organizing can't win this one, it will never win anything. If the community does win on the issue of divestment, students can move on to other issues with strength, having clearly demonstrated that the root problem at Harvard is a governing hierarchy that is deaf to the concerns...
...very least, UHS owes her and the rest of its patient community an immediate explanation to reassure those who rely on it for emergency care that it is open all of the time. The potential danger of finding the emergency roomed locked and unstaffed is obvious and quite frightening...
...bottom line therefore seems obvious enough to me: this year you yourself and anyone else for whom you might be speaking--on what authority I wonder?--are not in favor of the commitments and convictions of certain candidates or of their mode of operation. In my opinion, it is totally inappropriate for you to make any statement of this kind whatsoever, especially on the official letterhead of the Board of Overseers and accompanying ballots...
Crew teams have an obvious reason for concern about weight. Lightweight rowers have to weigh in at a certain level or they don't row in that boat. But for many other people, weight concerns develop for less discernable, psychological reasons...
...rather weightily puts it, "There was in fact one essential principle on which cynics, metaphysicians, researchers, and ordinary bourgeois could cheerfully unite: true love is the conjunction of concupiscence with affection." This seems a rather obvious thesis to attract all the firepower that Gay devotes to it. And though it is doubtless true that Victorians in love behaved much like anyone else--lacking only the modern penchant for boasting--Gay also shows us that the Victorians and their Continental or American contemporaries were oddly different. Their new influence disturbed and bewildered them, and they often diagnosed themselves as "nervous...