Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mark of Pope John Paul II's charismatic style is his ability to illuminate human aspirations with a telling phrase or a symbolic gesture. For several hours last week, an unprecedented event put together under his auspices dramatized one of the greatest of all aspirations. At his invitation, leaders from the religions of the earth gathered under glowering skies in the tranquil medieval Italian town of Assisi and, with quiet dignity, uttered prayers for world peace...
PUTTING THE WORDS "Supreme Court" and "campaign" together yields a phrase as oxymoronic as "military intelligence" or "jumbo shrimp." By requiring Justices to grovel before the people in order to garner votes, California--and most other states, for that matter--violates one of the most crucial tenets of American constitutionalism. For the judiciary to check and restrain the other two branches of government, judges must be free from the pressures of electoral politics. To elect judges--and thereby force them to be responsive to the whims of the electorate--is to sacrifice long-term justice to the political trends...
...PHRASE town-gown conflict usually conjures up a battle between Harvard officials and Cambridge residents over real-estate or taxes. But the phrase took on new meaning for me the other day when I was tossed out of a local restaurant because a manager didn't like my attitude...
...plaintiffs' attorneys rested their case last week, they called expert witnesses in an attempt to resolve this apparent contradiction. University of Virginia Sociologist James D. Hunter characterized secular humanism as the functional equivalent of a religion, and, by implication, subject to the law. Hunter, however, subsequently acknowledged that the phrase functional equivalent is absent from the Constitution's First Amendment, which forbids the establishment of any religion by the Government. He also conceded that "vegetarianism, socialism, environmentalism and bureaucracy" might be construed as functionally equivalent religions...
This litany of council accomplishments is only partially complete, but it should suffice to illustrate the grossly unfair nature of yesterday's editorial. Is it "wildly optimistic," to borrow your phrase, to hope for fairer treatment of the council in the future? Richard Eisert '88 Chairperson, Undergraduate Council