Word: precious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their Crimson letter (April 28), the Black Law Students Association and Muhammad Kenyatta enmesh themselves in contradictory statements. Thus they reject the charge I and Professor Orlando Patterson made (April 25), that they used the PLO representative's appearance here on April 20th to thumb their nose at those precious intellectual norms of fairness and free speech, and then proceed unwittingly to reveal that they in fact have very little respect for these norms. I have several reactions to their letter...
...families in cities like Shanghai are squeezed into apartments of 90 sq. ft. or less. Yet a party survey last November revealed that some 21,000 party officials enjoyed living quarters that, on an average, were six times that size. Since living space has become the nation's most precious commodity, those who control housing permits and those in the construction business wield inordinate power. Numerous blocks of apartments have remained empty for months while different groups bickered over how to divide the spoils. Some officials have made a killing in the confusion. Zheng Suzhi, party secretary in Zhejiang province...
...Gurney's version, the precious papers are a lost chapter of The Great Gatsby in which Gatsby manages to bed Daisy Buchanan. Irene Worth is Fitzgerald's former mistress who protects that cache, and Jeff Daniels is an English instructor who will do anything, including going to bed with Worth's homely granddaughter (Stockard Channing), to obtain...
This frightening event should make us all less complacent about our relief that the experience of victimized groups in modern society groups like Blacks, Jews, Irish. Armenians, Palestinians, etc, is an automatic guarantee that such groups will themselves respect and uphold the norms of civility and fairness. These precious and Fragile norms must be learned, actively nurtured, and vigilantly defended. This is the only way they will ever endure...
...attention, no matter how much stylistic damage they wreak. Though The Real World fails as a piece of fiction, it offers sobering insight into the white collar world. Revealed in all its stark vacuity is the antiseptic, materialistic world of budget sheets, computers and industry analyses that soaks up precious energy of today's young executives. Any humanist contemplating a business career should read The Real World before entering into what may later be regretted as a Faustian pact...