Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several professors at the Russian Research Center agreed that, beyond immediate rhetorical posturing, the film will not change superpower relations. Ulam said it was unlikely to influence public opinion because "the American people won't keep watching this thing...
Three dissenters were vigorous in their objections. Lawrence Eagleburger, former Under Secretary of State, Roger Smith, chairman of General Motors, and John Dellenback, a retired Republican Congressman from Oregon, argued in 13 pages of alternative opinion that "evidence suggests that it is in the context of a growing economy that South Africa has the greatest likelihood of resolving its basic problems...
...unfortunate that many undergraduates seem to share, at least to some degree, David Graham's opinion ["Dissenting Opinion," February 11] as to how the disciplinary process should be carried on at this University. The reforms recently undertaken by the Administrative Board are, as he does point out, a beginning, and more certainly needs to be done; however Mr. Graham's contention that cross-examination is not a desirable further reform displays a fundamental misperception of how the concept of justice relates to the Harvard community. The idea of justice is an essential component of any society, whatever its size...
...Soviet Union at any cost. Last week Perle aimed his criticism at the foreign and defense ministers of the NATO alliance. Speaking at a defense symposium in Munich, Perle complained that the ministers usually meet to produce bland communiques that "paper over differences, avoid controversy ((and)) placate public opinion . . . rather than declaring our most fundamental convictions...
...longer than I intended, and I foresee that the projected second and last volume -- whose title will probably be You've Had Your Time -- will be as long, if not longer." Shortly after this promise to produce roughly 1,000 pages of printed prose about himself, Burgess introduces his opinion of professional writers: "They are not remarkable people, and if they are novelists they are particularly lacking in interest...