Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Goetz and his supporters of racism. As Cabey's condition worsened, Breslin wrote, "Those who thought it was fine for Goetz to shoot a black in the back, even if it paralyzed him for life, now conceivably could be asked to raise their cheers for death." But much black opinion has come down on Goetz's side. Roy Innis, chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality, called Goetz "the avenger for all of us" and offered to raise defense money. "Some black man ought to have done what he did long before," said Innis. "I wish it had been...
...painter James McNeill Whistler, who "writes in an offhand, colloquial style, much besprinkled with French--a style which might be called familiar if one often encountered anything like it." Holding at arm's length a novel by Louisa May Alcott (Eight Cousins: or, the Aunt-Hill), he mentions the opinion of some foreigners that American children are ill- behaved: "If this is so, the philosophic mind desires to know the reason of it, and when in the course of its enquiry the philosophic mind encounters the tales of Miss Alcott, we think it will feel a momentary impulse...
American diplomats expect a Soviet propaganda campaign aimed at convincing U.S. allies, and world opinion generally, that a ban on Star Wars must be part of any new arms-control agreement. To get a head start on countering such pressure, members of Shultz's team fanned out to allied capitals to explain the U.S. position as soon as the Geneva talks ended. Kenneth Adelman, director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, even ventured into Eastern Europe to talk to the leaders of Communist countries...
...Supreme Court said in Gertz vs. Robert Welch, Inc. that "there is no such thing as a false idea," meaning that opinion is not punishable; opinions should be countered not by judges and juries but by "the competition of other ideas." But facts can be false and actionable. Evans and Novak had quoted one unnamed political scientist as saying that "Ollman has no status within the profession, but is a pure and simple activist." Is that an opinion, or a fact subject to verification? To Judge Antonin Scalia, who is also a Reagan appointee on the court of appeals, this...
Everyone is entitled to his or her political opinion. The question is whether or not one would defend to the death, or pay hard cash to hear, Goldie Hawn's. For as executive producer and star of Protocol, she posits the notion that to secure a strategic base in a mythical Arabian emirate, the U.S. Government would act as procurer for the pasha. As the Washington cocktail waitress who catches the Emir's eye when she saves him from assassination, Hawn has some good funny moments dealing with the celebrity that follows from her heroism. But Director Herbert Ross stages...