Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Library officials still say that protection of the works--not the minds of the reader--underlies the secluded stacks. They point out that other "X" classifications include miniatures, unbound books and works in bad condition or with missing parts...
...number of arrests was the second highest of the many demonstrations that have been held at the plant, which has been a focal point for the anti-nuclear movement since construction began 13 years ago. Previously, more than 2,500 arrests had been made, including...
Although most trustees contacted last night refused comment on Wilson, they said throughout the lengthy search process that the choice of the new president would mark a turning point for Radcliffe...
...Skinner promised that "the Federal Government is going to help in a very substantial way," but he studiously avoided being pinned down to a figure.) Thus, they insisted, the project would force tax increases that Denver residents could not afford. The two main airlines servicing Denver, United and Continental, point out that Stapleton still has 25 unused gates; some expansion of runway capacity, they argued, was all that was needed. But the vote made it obvious that few citizens listened. It is only in the nation's booming Seattles, it seems, that residents can ask, What price growth...
...Satanic Verses may have absorbed Rushdie's brilliant perception of what the planet has become: old cultures in sudden high-velocity crisscross, a bewilderment of ethnic explosion and implosion simultaneously. The Ayatullah Khomeini's response to Rushdie is (whatever else it is) an exquisite vindication of Rushdie's point. Khomeini's Iranian revolution was exactly a violent repudiation of the new world that the Shah had sponsored. The struggle throughout the Middle East now is, among other things, a collision between Islam and the temptations and intrusions of the West. In the new world, everything disintegrates: family, community, tradition, coherence...