Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dissenting Opinion...
...president began by tampering with one of Harvard's only democratic institutions in order to exclude an unfriendly opinion. Given the seriousness of the offense, his attempt to maintain his distance from it is not surprising. It was at best a glaring moral lapse, at worst, a crude calculation...
MOST PEOPLE in my experience harbor a suspicion that God does not approve of their sexuality. Despite the earnest efforts of clergy and religious educators in both the Jewish and Christian traditions to suggest otherwise, the opinion subsists, fed, no doubt on the remnants of a preadolescent identification of the Divinity with one's own parents. In consequence, discussions that mix religion and sexual values tend to be particularly loaded...
...holds that both of these statements, along with all the rest of Jewish law, carry full Divine sanction in our lives must therefore view homosexual activity (although not necessarily homosexual orientation, over which one has no conscious control) as a sin. There would then be some possible distribution of opinion as to how one establishes a moral balance between the sin on the one hand and the inherent worth of the person on the other...
...addressee. Harry had to chase Bess, a spirited child of a prominent Independence, Mo., family, for almost three decades before she would marry him. By the time he entered the White House in 1945, she was, he wrote her, "the only person in the world whose approval and good opinion I value." Bess was more modest. "A woman's place in public," she told a friend, "is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight." Bess did read the Congressional Record, but she let Harry hog the headlines and cringed at his public...