Word: properly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alas, no rose is without a thorn. Some have suggested the rose is somehow too genteel, too proper to be the American symbol. Much better the rangy sunflower or the homespun black-eyed Susan. "Most of the beautiful roses we cherish are European roses," said Stanwyn Shetler of the National Museum of Natural History, who testified against the rose and advocated, instead, the phlox. Moreover, like many homegrown American products, the new symbol is prey to foreign infestation, the rose's principal enemy being the Japanese beetle. Despite a few cavils, there seems little doubt that President Reagan will sign...
Having never seen an escalator, you can imagine what he thinks of the bidet in his hotel room. Of course, Susan is forced to choose between her proper editor/boyfriend and the rugged Crocodile of her dreams, but Hogan, an appealing actor of sardonic understatement, gives this old hat plot new life. He plays Mick with a warmth and naivete which make all of his gaffes fun to watch, and his encounter with two prostitutes is a comic stand-out. "Crocodile Dundee" surely will not be remembered as one of history's finest films, but, thanks to Paul Hogan, it proves...
...question of proper upbringing. Many people here--having been raised in some kind of hyper-austere, Ingmar Bergmann-style family where even thinking about the lower functions was a mortal sin--find it hard to deal with the decadent freedom of Harvard life. Unsure how to act, they try to behave they way they think everyone else does, and, invariably, they overshoot the mark. The result is otherwise innocuous-looking people leaning over at the dinner table and asking you to "pass the fucking salt...
What can be done to help these people? I think our friends down at the QRR office might have a few pointers. We could establish a diagnostic obscenity test (DOT) for all incoming freshmen, one which stresses proper context and conjugation, and provide remedial courses for those who fail...
...What we hope the center will do is take on the hard issues," said Allison. Striking the proper balance between freedom of the press and matters of national security is one such issue, he said...