Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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REAGAN may be a lame duck president, but he still wields an enormous ability to affect national opinion. His justification for not enforcing civil rights laws and for vetoing this newest piece of legislation has been that these laws are no longer necessary or effective. Some are convinced. Over and over again, Reagan's actions have demonstrated his belief that the market system should rule all--that people should be completely free to discriminate on any basis, for any purpose...
...Major Bob ("Cowboy") Dulaney, 36, from Homestead A.F.B., Florida. His teammates, all Air Force captains from Homestead, follow in a prearranged sequence: Rex Carpenter, 28, Steve ("Wheels") Wheeler, 29, and Nick Anderson, 26. Each was graduated first in his pilot class and has an amiably arrogant opinion of himself as a hot "throttle jockey." At Gunsmoke, every pilot feels that...
...onto, but the terra incognita of Hector Berlioz, the virtuoso French composer who in the 1830s revolutionized symphonic sound in such works as the hallucinogenic Symphonie Fantastique and the blazing choral symphony Romeo et Juliette. "Our goal is to present a view of Berlioz very different from modern received opinion," Norrington told the audience before the performance. "We're not like a symphony orchestra playing notes. We only play poetry here...
...your opinion. does not require a drill in proper behavior for its own sake, the Harvard community--students, facility, alumni and staff--most unequivocally does...
...alumnus said although there were advantages to the "platonic, single-sex relationships" that the clubs foster, he did not oppose the decision to admit women. He said he might not have voted for the change, but that his opinion "wasn't solicited...