Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard took a nine-hour bus ride to William and Mary yesterday. More long journeys await the Crimson if it advances in the tournament. But nothing is sweeter than an NCAA championship, an opinion the members of the 1904 golf team would confirm, if only they were around today...
...interest rates. "Dukakis is just a Northern-fried Jimmy Carter," said Bush Campaign Manager Lee Atwater. Reason for the assaults: "Dukakis is starting to emerge as a stature candidate, slightly bigger than life," explained a Bush aide. "That has to be nipped. It's much easier to shape opinion about a candidate when he's still relatively unknown...
...needless extra irritants. The tone of service is both chummy and didactic. An unsmilingly intent preppie waiter offers the "observation" that the regular coffee has far more flavor than the espresso. As for ice cream, one can have it "nestled" beside a poached pear, but in the waiter's opinion, "it is good enough to stand on its own," a promise not fulfilled by the bland dessert...
...still life that pays homage to Cezanne and Manet while equaling both in its rigor and sensuousness, and Yellow Christ, 1889, with its startling extremes of yellow and orange. This painting of peasants adoring a wayside crucifix was also, perhaps, an allegory of Gauguin's opinion of himself: Christ's face is his schematic self-portrait, and the Breton women may stand for Gauguin's followers in Pont-Aven...
...strongly disagree with the opinion of Eden Williams that we segregate ourselves to the detriment of racial relations. Our mere decision to attend Harvard University over such traditionally Black institutions as Hampton, Fisk or Howard Universities demonstrates our knowledge of "reality" as she perceives it. Yet we must vehemently denounce the notion that the awareness of this "reality" must be translated into assimilation and loss of our culture. Rather, we argue that the maintenance of one's own culture is essential in an effort to respect and appreciate dissimilar ones. Ms. Williams and those who concur with her are obviously...