Word: respective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movie, they really loved it? Surely there were waves of affection breaking over the winners of the acting prizes: Cher (Moonstruck), Michael Douglas (Wall Street), Sean Connery (The Untouchables) and Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck). But The Last Emperor, with its stern, sumptuous sprawl, more likely earned a decorous, distanced respect in a slim year. The other nominees for Best Picture were three comedies and one high-tech yuppie horror movie -- not the Academy's favorite genres. By contrast, Bertolucci's true-life fable of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi, China's last monarch, had all the familiar Academy-epic goods. It rips...
...essay on exactitude, he arrives at a sensible and workaday solution to Jacques Derrida's worries about language as a representation of absence rather than presence: "the proper use of language... is one that enables us to approach things (present or absent) with discretion, attention, and caution, with respect for what things (present or absent) communicate without words...
...came to Harvard, we ceded certain rights of privacy to the University police, and not the Cambridge force. No Harvard dormitory should ever be barged into--loud music notwithstanding--and shut down the way the Cambridge police shut down the Adams House party. The Cambridge and Harvard forces usually respect one another's jurisdictions, and College officials should see to it that such arrangements are maintained...
...current bare minimum of enlightenment. It is the administration's duty to support peer counseling groups such as Response; publicize sexual harassment dangers to students and seriously punish and publicize offenders; condemn, not tolerate, sexual harassment of employees like Charlotte Walters, who recently sued Harvard; accord women professors the respect they deserve with fair hiring, tenure-granting, and job-distributing practices...
...failure to practice what he preaches defeats the goals of his moral education program. It is difficult to see how an institution--through its actions--could inculcate Bok's treasured values of "honesty, nonviolence, promise keeping, respect for property and other legitimate interests," anyway. But a university and its officers can set an example of moral conduct for students to follow by acting forthrightly in addressing pressing ethical questions. Unfortunately, President Bok hasn't learned that lesson...