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...case of Fernandez and Go suggests that foreign students can have an important effect on each other as well As Fernandez puts it. "We came here to study, not to quarrel. The school provides an informal forum for some sincere discussion of our views. While we will remain on different sides, we get along very well...
...kind of American, extremely intelligent and utterly unintellectual, who can baffle Europeans. He claims without regret that his mental development stopped at 19. When he says he is not satirizing the amiable suburban householders of Poltergeist, who never turn off their television set, he means it. He has no quarrel with subdivisions, polyester, freeways, patio living, junk food for belly or mind, or people who sometimes seem to be cassette-recorded copies of each other. His lively mind grew out of such a mulch...
...produce large long-run savings. It also would return the Social Security system to Roosevelt's idea of basic minimum protection against poverty, and would prod those now working to save more for their retirement. Encouraging savings is a goal that hardly any economist, conservative or liberal, will quarrel with...
...will prove serious depends on how long the Falklands dispute lasts. While the U.S. and Britain are aligned against a Latin American nation, "Hispanidad," the tradition of Latin American solidarity, will remain at the fore, overshadowing a myriad of inter-American territorial and ideological disputes, like Argentina's quarrel with Chile over the Beagle Channel. Already there are mutterings within the Organization of American States about moving the headquarters of that hemispheric coalition out of Washington, or forming a purely Hispanic rival group. Said a senior O.A.S. official: "Never has the U.S. done so much so fast to destroy...
...being given a second life in the theaters because someone up there at Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope Studios liked it and thought the film deserved a second chance. It is hard to see why. The Maples are a couple who seem to have no great quarrel with each other, therefore no reason for their philandering ways. Their divorce, when it comes, is just like their marriage: civilized, ruefully witty and without the slightest resonance. Blythe Banner has an agreeable asperity as Joan; Michael Moriarty has a disagreeable whininess as Richard. He should have been dissuaded from an attempt...