Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...muscled Rocky-Rambo as hero, instead of the motley reality of the Vietnam experience that was parading below their windows. Rambo was a hero--tough, honorable, simple, yet sensitive, devoted to a cause, and a cause that was right. You could root for Rambo. How could these students not prefer him over real Vietnam vets--all-too-real reminders of the ambiguous nature not only of the Vietnam War, but of human beings in general. These vets were real people, and real people tend to be too complicated to be described as tough, honorable, simple, yet sensitive, devoted...
...still angry, I began to feel I could understand his attitude. This student was so remote from the Vietnam experience that he was only an infant when the evening news included body counts as a regular feature--like the weather. And with reality so remote, who wouldn't prefer to think of Sylvester Stallone as the one with courage, as the real hero, and those (now very wet) demonstrators as shams. Stallone was "Rocky", the vets were "chickens". I went on to the library through the rain, but at least one thing was clear--I knew how to score...
...with the stuff. Instead, Quad resident are subjected to a gross example of modern "art." Of course, those of us up here should be used to such things. You know what I would have considered art? Donating the Kool-Aid grant to the Quad renovation fund--most students would prefer rooms comparable to those on the river over a ludicrous display of biodegradable graffitti. Christopher...
...program could be work-study if a contract was awarded to administer work-study positions," says Greg H. Johnson '82, graduate secretary of the house. "Some organizations require work-study," Johnson says, adding that some agencies prefer students on work-study because they feel that they will be more responsible than volunteers...
...Japan's public TV extended its popular 45- minute evening news program to an hour and devoted it all to the space accident. The Jerusalem Post noted editorially that "Americans take their risks in front of grandstands and television cameras for all the world to see, while the Soviets prefer to keep their launchings secret until they have been successful." Alan Castro, a former newspaper editor in Hong Kong, expressed a common new awareness of space travel prompted by the accident: "For a while there, we lost sight of the man in our fixation with the machine." Toronto's Globe...