Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...members of this year's council see discussions like the ones about the Fly Club suit and a resolution calling on Harvard to stay neutral in May's union election as the beginning of a new role for the council--that of a forum and focal point of student opinion on controversial issues that have divided the campus...
...would have to go at itfull-throttle also kept me away. That scared me,as did the horror stories of cut classes and lastminute maniacal cram sessions. As sophomore yearbegan, though, I decided to comp theCrimson's editorial board. It seemed theeasy way out--I could write short opinion piecesand get on the paper without going bonkers doingthe news comp...
...Gorbachev is clearly sensitive to opinion at home. When Soviet television broadcast his interview with NBC's Tom Brokaw last year, a question on whether Gorbachev discussed "Soviet affairs at the highest level" with his wife was deleted. The General Secretary's answer ("We discuss everything") was cut as well. In Washington last year she spontaneously crossed the street to talk to Western journalists, underlining a Gorbachevian openness; her KGB bodyguards promptly ordered the only Soviet journalist in the press group to leave...
...about to play the dutiful housewife, puttering contentedly around the Gorbachev dacha alongside Rublevskoye Highway west of Moscow. In her doctoral dissertation she recorded these words from a cossack folk song: "Go play, young girl, while you are still free." Raisa will have her fun. And if Soviet public opinion or the exigencies of domestic politics force her to curb her activities at home, she will always be a hit on the road. All she has to do is switch on her strobe-light smile and, as she has so often before, drop one of the handful of phrases...
...earnings from the networks' burgeoning overseas sales are more significant "in the promise than in the reality," says NBC News President Lawrence Grossman. What the export market does provide, however, is an elite audience, composed largely of international businessmen, government officials, journalists and opinion makers.The houses of parliament in Sweden and Norway receive CNN, and Italian President Francesco Cossiga is said to be a fan. When CNN aired a briefing on the Middle East by Secretary of State George Shultz last February, Jordan's King Hussein, watching in Paris, quickly called the network's Atlanta headquarters to respond...