Word: pledgees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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For those who are overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of new people to meet and new mores to learn, the fraternity and sorority system seems to offer safe haven: about 62% of all freshmen pledge. While some fraternities are still centers of Animal House-style saturnalias, many others have been...
Walesa risked his credibility by calling for an end to the strikes, which had attracted broad sympathy. But in return, Walesa obtained a pledge from Kiszczak that could revive the union leader's power and the diminishing influence of Solidarity: the regime agreed to discuss during the round-table talks...
When Michael Dukakis was asked about news stories casting doubt on George Bush's World War II heroism, he said, "I don't think that kind of thing has any place in the campaign . . . You don't fly 58 missions without enormous courage and tremendous patriotism." Not long afterward, Bush...
There is no mistaking Bush's point. It has nothing to do with the constitutional question of whether Dukakis eleven years ago should have vetoed a bill mandating recital of the pledge in school classrooms every day. Bush is implying that Dukakis is unpatriotic, that he doesn't love America...
Maybe this confession will just tar me as unpatriotic too, but nothing since I came of political age has depressed me so much about American democracy as the apparent success of Bush's pledge offensive. What, after all, is American patriotism about? It's not about purple mountain majesties -- they...