Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Four years after the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, the press continues to snipe at us. In your report on the Sarajevo Games, almost every adjective or phrase you use in referring to Lake Placid has a negative or derogatory connotation. We may have done some things imperfectly that winter, but we did a lot that was right...
...friendship and fraternity, with the Olympic flag as the symbol." When Mika Spiljak, whose official title is "President of the Presidency," declared the Games open, doves raced balloons to the mountaintops. In one translation of the Olympic oath, vowed to for all by Yugoslav Skier Bojan Krizaj, the phrase "in the spirit of true sportsmanship" came out "in the spirit of true sponsorship," but the moment could not be spoiled...
...situation does, however, deserve close consideration, for there may be another patient, unlike Bouvia, who is dependent on the hospital's care and cannot simply check herself out. That patient may find herself in the same position, but totally powerless a situation that makes the phrase "self- determination" seem irrelevant...
...fact, the disparities were as superficial as a scrim. Both men were driven by adoring, voracious mothers. Both could tell a joke or draw a tear with a melodic or verbal phrase. And both concentrated on what Composer Alec Wilder called "the bone-deep fatigue of urban gaiety." In either case, that last word applied in its ancient and current sense...
NUCLEAR FREEZE. It's something that you can get excited about. It's a cause celebre, a handy catch phrase that covers a wide range of anti-war sentiments, from pacifism to middle-of-the-road pragmatism. Yet, the wholehearted embrace of the nuclear freeze issue-with the idealistic "unilateral" or the cautioning "bilateral"-has resulted in the rover simplification of an issue that defies vague sloganeering...