Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Expert opinion on child rearing is no less subject to fashion than the length of hemlines. Witness the advice given to parents by Psychologist John B. Watson in his influential 1928 handbook Psychological Care of Infant and Child: "Never hug and kiss them, never let them sit in your lap. If you must, kiss them once on the forehead when they say good night. Shake hands with them in the morning...
Many Americans are reacting with frustration to the attack on the U.S.S. Stark by an Iraqi plane ((NATION, June 1)). It is time this country took some action and ignored the opinion of the rest of the world. We can no longer dismiss these incidents as accidents. America should react in a way befitting a superpower...
...like to hear a country singer doing crossover," he admits. "Young people started turning their radios to hear Alabama and Kenny Rogers, and they began to hear George Strait and Ricky Skaggs." It is not necessary to press Travis' good country manners by asking his candid opinion of Rogers. The performers who command his respect can be heard in the echoes his music stirs: Strait and Skaggs and, especially, George Jones, and, reaching further back, Bob Wills' Western swing. At concerts Travis will even do tunes associated with Roy Rogers and those harmonizers of early sunrises and dusty trails...
...served five years of a 52-year sentence for providing arms and explosives to Libyan Ruler Muammar Gaddafi and plotting to kill his federal prosecutors. One reason for his absorption with the TV spectacular is that he knows so many members of the cast and has such a definite opinion about them. Many of his former associates, says Wilson, ought to be exactly where...
...American victory become imminent, the Morgenthau plan to de-industrialize Germany was increasingly at odds with dominant opinion. By 1945 the plan "was only being taken seriously by Morgenthau himself," Lee says...