Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Adler's critics, of whom there are many, dismiss him as a hip shooter, the fastest opinion west of the Hudson but not worth serious attention. Yet Leon Botstein, president of Bard College in New York, admires Adler's contentiousness. Adler has fought for the idea, says Botstein, that thought "is too important to be left to the Ph.D.s." Declares Ernest Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching: "He's taken cherished institutions by the scruff of the neck and said, 'Enough...
...executive assistant. Falwell ordered a halt to bonuses and all other remuneration, apart from salaries, for PTL's 2,000-member staff. Said Falwell, who earns $100,000 a year from his Lynchburg ministry: "I don't think any reasonable person could believe these salaries are acceptable. In my opinion, no ministry in America pays pastors and staffs at this level...
...evil is the tribal impulse that allows a man to think only of himself and his family rather than his duties as a citizen of the world. When a machine-shop owner whose patching over of defective cylinder heads sent 21 pilots to their deaths voices the repentant opinion that they were "all my sons," this simple compassion seems to him earthshakingly...
...purpose is to work for Afrikaner power, is beginning to make strange noises. First it forced out about 1,000 members who had split with the Nationalists to form the ultraright Herstigte (Reconstituted) National Party. Then, last year, it began circulating among its members a "working document" that canvassed opinion on the idea of a multiracial government. "The rights of all groups should be advanced and fulfilled," it said. Now Broederbond Chairman Jan Pieter de Lange is speaking openly of a "tremendous need for more contact ((between races)) to build up mutual understanding...
...nearly two months after Sakharov's release, a story from Moscow Correspondent Philip Taubman made the front page of the New York Times: SOVIET TURNS A BIG CORNER -- RELEASE OF DISSIDENTS MORE THAN A GESTURE. Taubman found in Sakharov's release not only Gorbachev's desire to soften international opinion but also his need to win over the Soviet intellectuals, a view increasingly held by Kremlinologists. Now that the hitherto heavy-handed Soviets have become slicker at manipulating opinion, it takes a little time to recognize that a package so wrapped in public relations may still have a kernel...