Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Funny thing is, they are getting into trouble like never before. The reason is pretty simple. People are teen-agers for longer than they used to be. In the past century, the gap between puberty and marriage has expanded enormously. "Teen-agerness" is not confined to the ages 13 through 19 anymore, but to the expanding period when the desires of adults coexist with the responsibilities of children...
...Niebuhr who evoked the most tremendous response at one moment of his address, and it happened in this manner. This particular incident is not recorded in Christian Idea of Education (Yale University Press, 1957), which was published as a record of the seminar, for the simple reason that it was spontaneous and unrehearsed, and did not form part of Niebuhr's script...
...will agree on what they are enjoying. Ballard is a master of hard- edged hallucinations, of improbable scenes so vivid that they enter the subconscious without checking in first at the front desk of reason. Reading him seems like dreaming, and interpretations of meaning tend to be resented as invasions of privacy. So it is here. There is an old-fashioned adventure tale going on, along with a peculiar love story, a mythic quest, a laborious fertility rite and a perilous journey of psychological discovery. And that is only for openers...
...week, Presiding Judge Frederick Lawton defended the TV inquiry as an important forum for resolving questions surrounding Waldheim's past. "Unless properly investigated," he noted, "these allegations could distort the historical record." Former Nuremberg Prosecutor Telford Taylor, a consultant for the program, also supports the trial. "I see no reason to apologize for the fact that it is taking place on television," he says. "It's better to get a reasoned debate with jurists about the accumulated evidence than what we've been getting...
...most popular of these is Speed Week, which takes place every spring in Daytona, Florida. While the ostensible reason for the Florida extravaganza is to watch an international motorcycle roadrace, most cyclists today are there just to be part of the crowd...