Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...United Jewish Appeal. Rarely had he ever appeared so angry in public. Referring to a report that originated in the Middle East Policy Survey, a Washington newsletter, he quoted Illinois Senator Charles Percy as advising Reagan to bring Israel to its knees. (Percy denies that he made such a remark, and others who were at the meeting in question back him up.) Standing in the Knesset building before tapestries by Marc Chagall that depict historical Jewish scenes, Begin declared, "Nobody, nobody is going to bring Israel to her knees. You must have forgotten that Jews do not kneel...
...long ago President Reagan remarked, "I know that what we've been doing doesn't read well in the Washington Post or the New York Times, but, believe me, it reads well in Peoria." Like most of Reagan's hand-carved one-liners (which is about all we get these days), this remark was ambiguously simple. It seems a criticism of two papers unpopular with right-wingers, but in Reagan fashion it was a bite without a sting. The remark could also be read, suggests David R. Gergen, the White House's director of communications...
Mayo never stops to consider Foley's off-hand remark that part of an officer's preparation is coming to grips with "dropping a little napalm on a village where there might even be women and children." Later, in a rather superfluous confrontation with a bar-full of townies, the hero ignores the taunt of "warmonger" and breaks noses only when the locals actually threaten him and Paula...
Teachers in fact often express hostility to the view that the end of research is the student's understanding. A friend recently told me a fairly typical remark made by a professor criticizing a student who in her term paper had tried to discuss the meanings of the sources she had read. "I don't want what you think," the admonishment went. "I want what the critics think." To which a reasonable reply might be "Then read them yourself...
...such films as Doctor in the House (1954) to the chin-up R.A.F. pilot of Reach for the Sky (1956); of Parkinson's disease; in London. "I seem fated to be either the stiff-upper-lip war hero or the hearty, beer-drinking idiot," More once complained. The remark was overly self-deprecating, as his wonderfully whimsical performance in Genevieve (1953) testified...