Word: opinions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inspire me, let alone sing to me, and I can't take much more of the endless bickering, endless polling or endless speculation by newscasters who need to fill six hours of their "Election '88" specials every primary day. The ability of the media to predict public opinion has taken the fun and luck out of politics. Under today's system there's no chance that we'll ever see the excitement of a surprise upset such as Harry Truman's win against Dewey...
Patterson says some students who want to get involved with PBH have an inflated opinion of their role and think they are nobly conferring tutoring upon the underprivileged. "I think and hope that changes quickly," she says. "Getting students involved in the first place is the most important thing," she says. "If the reason [why the students are tutoring] doesn't change later, then there's a problem...
...same--so campus awareness and debate over the issues are at an all-time high. But about one-third of all support staff leave their posts each year, most during the summer. The election must be held this spring so that the results will accurately reflect the opinion of an informed electorate...
...Once 1967 came, we realized how much Jerusalem had become a religion," Fein said, remembering a meeting where three rabbis in a Holiday Inn in Tewksbury, Mass, decided to "excommunicate" any Jew who voiced an opinion against the state of Israel...
...with tales of changelings or of sleeping women seduced and impregnated by incubi, and occasionally appears in popular entertainments like The Bad Seed and Rosemary's Baby. Not many serious writers have risked such a plot. It reeks of discredited superstitions and demonologies; it suggests, contrary to liberal, enlightened opinion, that wickedness is inborn and intractable...