Word: opinionative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possibilities of institutionalizing the expression of student opinion through councils of concentrators in each department on problems of personnel and education...
...attempt to determine undergraduate opinion on the issues of United States foreign policy the Student Union will conduct a poll today and tomorrow posing seven questions now before this country...
...last winter: there is no danger that the U. S. will impose any Government control upon newspapers, but it doesn't have to: the press is already censored by its business connections and advertisers. Publishers suppress facts which are financially dangerous, distort facts to influence public opinion against economic reform. Ickes produces facts and figures to show that publishing has become a big business in itself, with expensive plants and lucrative revenues; that publishers have grown rich; rich men have become publishers, and they are aligned with other men of wealth against the interests of common...
Last week the Commission issued its decision. Although there was "grave doubt" about the station's "qualifications to operate in ... the public interest," the Commission was of the opinion that "an order of revocation of license need not be entered at this time." Reason: "These particular broadcasts were provoked by the occasion, and are not necessarily indicative of widespread infractions in the course of this station's broadcast activities...
...White's well-timed, wild dialogues are suggestive of the better (not the best) comic strips. His Freudian overtones and contemporary analogies make the book "profound," in the publisher's opinion, as well as "funny." There is an ice carnival, a burlesque of chivalry complete with pratt falls; there is an affecting and terrible sequence, in somewhat doubtful taste, about a unicorn. The book as a whole might be described as a shake-up of British rectory humor, Evelyn Waugh, Laurel & Hardy, John Erskine, and the Marquis de Sade, quite well enough blended to please the palate...