Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meet the many requests for visits to campuses I have had to call upon my field colleagues and other associates to undertake more of this work, which is assuming something of a ministry; for it is plain that the word we bring is something that many young people have longed to hear, namely that America is a part of the great Western World whose roots lie in the Mediterranean and whose branches lie on far-flung continents...
...just plain didn't have enough depth in running to match the challenge they put up," McCurdy said. "And that's been pretty much the story all year...
...psychologism cannot be dismissed so easily. The question still remains: what motivated Weil's deliberate self-destruction? Could Weil really have been as sound-mindedly generous and saintly in her suffering as Hardwick asserted in her review, and as Petrement argues throughout this study? Isn't there something just plain wrong with someone who makes a vocation out of subjecting herself to the same oppression that prisoners and workers--whom Weil called "the humiliated layer of the social hierarchy"--had to face? (Compassion is one thing, but self-torture is another...
Some evidence of the difficulties Soviet dissidents face was made plain last week in a letter by Sakharov himself to Carter, which was delivered to the State Department by an American civil liberties lawyer who had met Sakharov in Russia the week before. In the letter Sakharov said that dissidents have "a hard, almost unbearable situation" in the East bloc countries and argued that "our and your duty is to fight for them...
Most writing on the subject of rock music suffers from the problem of how seriously one should approach it--is it art, philosophy, a cultural statement, or just plain good fun? Fortunately though, editor Jim Miller (a teacher of political philosophy at the University of Texas and a frequent contributors to Rolling Stone magazine) has pretty much steered this volume clear of ideology and excess. Most of the 26 contributors have written straightforward, informative and entertaining articles on the areas of their own special interest or expertise. The subjects include discussions of singers, songwriters and well-known studios, covering...