Word: personal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spoonful of sugar, it was the best coffee I had ever tasted. One of them asked whether I'd like cream, Dick, and I realized that suddenly we were Bob, Ray, Joe, and Dick. I was having coffee with very important people, so I, too, was a very important person...
...will get it all off my chest at once. When a reporter sits down with an Important Person for an interview, he considers it his right, indeed his duty, to get at least part of The Inside Story. He needn't have it all. Just a little that he can spring on his readers in the middle of his story to assure them that he knows what he's doing. Most bad stories come not from bad writing, but from bad questioning...
There is another reason for not hurting people. We should try to reaffirm the difference between people and property. One of the deepest philosophical bases of capitalism is the belief that a person is his property. Since you are what you can buy, your purchases are an extension of yourself. Indeed, as Marx writes in the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, "If money is the bond which binds me to human life, and society to me, and which links me with nature and man, is it not the bond of all bonds? Is it not therefore also the universal agent...
Application forms are now being simplified, and in the future, references will be obtained in person or by phone when necessary, Blatchford said...
...democratic state and university governance and believe that an uncritical application of egalitarian theory in the universities is likely to damage the interests of students as well as the university of which they are a part. It is a shallow view of democracy to assume that every person has a right to participate equally in every decision that affects his life. To argue thus is to assert that there is no place in a democratic society for the authority derived from professionalized training, knowledge and experience. A democratic community which ignored these claims would not merely stand condemned...