Word: rationalizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...September, the Communist Party newspaper Pravda printed a Yevtushenko poem, considered in step with Gorbachev's thinking, that attacked sluggish bureaucrats. In his address, Yevtushenko also condemned favors bestowed on the party elite. "Any form of closed food and commodity distribution is morally impermissible," he said, "including the special ration cards to visit souvenir booths that are in the pockets of all the delegates to this congress, myself included." He also indirectly denounced Stalin's reign of terror throughout the 1930s. "We do not have the right to remain silent about the fact that many middle- class farmers were trampled...
...Crimson is plus-12 in the giveaway-takeaway ration, and the defense's 15 interceptions are the main reason...
...autumn ritual, like football games and the first frost. America's A team of actresses, who would never accept summer-movie roles as Rambo's guerrilla girlfriend or Michael J. Fox's mom, invigorate Hollywood's ration of serious films. The seminar is in session, film scholars. It is the season to pay attention, even if you want to cut class...
...from headlines and posters, feathers, wisps of cotton wool and gauze for atmospheric effect, wheels, burlap, glass, photos, a shooter's target with a neat group punched in the bull's-eye and, after his emigration to England on the eve of World War II, part of a food-ration book--are emblems of their changing times, sharp and pathetic by turns...
Those of you who had private bathrooms as freshmen may have wondered why you were allowed four rolls of toilet paper at a time, but that ration was reduced to only two when you moved into certain Houses. Or why any House would have a toilet paper quota to begin wish. Are Masters afraid, you'll spend all your time "squeezing the Charmin" instead of studying, or do they just want to prevent you from t.p. ing the Yard...