Word: remarkes
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...watching in stadiums and arenas or on TV screens at home, the trend is obvious and incontrovertible. The image of the star athlete is, increasingly, a black image. Yet, while many Americans, black and white, wonder about the reasons for the overwhelming black presence in major sports, simply to remark on the fact makes some people uncomfortable. Racial differences -whether physical or cultural-have been employed in the past as excuses for discrimination. Throughout history, scientific findings have been twisted to serve the social theories of supremacists from ancient Greece to Nazi Germany to separate and unequal America. Racist arguments...
...being issued informational packets to help them weave a pitch for the energy program into just about any speech they have scheduled to any kind of audience anywhere in the country. The President himself is unlikely to miss a chance, no matter what the context, to tuck in a remark or two on moral equivalents of war and the like. The Democratic National Committee and local party officials are putting together energy task forces to sell the White House policy to civic groups. The Administration is plotting ways to get its point across at the National Conference on Energy Education...
...referred to the House Judiciary Committee as having "long been a graveyard for complicated legislation." I must take serious objection to that comment. The members of the committee have worked too hard for too many years on too many pieces of complex and highly technical legislation to permit that remark to stand without rebuttal...
...Mazlish, who wrote a crude psycho-biography of our former chief executive called In Search of Nixon, had attacked Coles for panning a group of similar psycho-biographies. He called Coles a traitor to the field and made a "Well, Erikson was just telling me over lunch" sort of remark in "the field's" defense. Coles responded that he didn't care to ally himself with "fields" or "schools," but that he admired social thinkers who were original and thoughtful and not overly dogmatic. The difference between you and Erikson, Coles in effect told Mazlish, is that only...
...paranoid" about "a few Communists [in Africa], even a few thousand Communists." Then, asked if he thought the South African government was "illegitimate," he replied with a breezy "Yeah." In Pretoria, the U.S. ambassador was immediately summoned for an explanation. In Washington, a State Department spokesman formally repudiated the remark...