Word: reads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only when she moved to New York and "came face to face with urban problems" did she become active. "I started to read the newspaper for the first time in my life," she says...
Suddenly everything crystallized. What his speech told us was that Tocsin's politics of amiable persuasion were not enough. The effort of changing their minds by proving how well-read we were was valiant but fruitless. I resigned as chair of Tocsin soon thereafter. I knew that I had to do something else, though I didn't quite know what...
Although students working in the admissions office have access to applicants' files, "there is an elaborate system of anonymity, and nobody has the leisure to read the files and become familiar with them," says Lewis...
That teachers decide what books should be read in class once failed to alarm. It was understood that teachers, because of their accomplishments, had a claim to make choices which the uninitiated, by definition, lacked...
...this means that we can expect our culture to become ever more motivated by social competition. Certain types of goods will slip even further out of read of the middle classes. And this cycle will feed on itself--particular brands will take on even greater importance. And even another economic disaster probably won't be able to convince us that there are other things of value in life besides money...