Word: papering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...watched me search frantically through my wallet. I knew I had less than $10, and I knew that muggers have a tendency to get angry when their victims have little to offer them. I was so nervous that I dropped my I.D. card and some pieces of scrap paper; he politely bent down and picked them up for me. But despite my mugger's charm and chivalry--it was the first time I was ever addressed as "ma'am"--I could not help fearing the worst: assault, rape, death...
What--any professor might ask if Kilson's letter were a student's paper--does this cryptic sentence mean? Calling neo-racism a twisted-neurotic virus, while vivid, leaves the term undefined. Its essential difference from old-racism evidently has to do with those who propound it, namely "white-ethnic newcomers to the middle class." Could the reference be to Jews (like Joseph) and Catholics (like...
...gather news--not police student activists. If campus newspapers find out about a protest beforehand, they send reporters and then assess how significant it was. The editors then pass judgement on where to play the article or if they should publish it at all. Covering the news is a paper's responsibility. By ignoring any tip-offs, a paper would be abdicating its duty...
Whether the press has the responsibility to report dangerous or lifethreatening tips to authorities is another related question. Shinagel would probably argue that if the Crimson received the report, the University ought to force the editors to divulge the tip. But this is for the paper to decide, not the University. Freedom of the press ultimately means that no outside authority has the right to threaten a newspapers's coverage of events, its editorial decisions, or its right to protect its sources...
...blues, relax on social occasions and, as he wrote to his future bride, make himself feel like a "big wild man." The substance did cause him ego problems when another physician beat him to the journals with his findings on the pain-killing properties of coca. His own paper on the subject was well received, but as he wrote in an 1884 letter to his sister-in-law, "the cocaine business has indeed brought me much honor, but the lion's share to others...