Word: scales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Next year, there will be a full-scale effort to register stronger protest," he added...
Nevertheless, Council members remain uneasy about the possibility of mass exodus. Mack I. Davis, director of advanced standing, last year submitted a memo on study abroad to Dean Fox listing the dangers of large-scale foreign study programs. Davis claimed he could "foresee difficulties in administering an already cumbersome housing lottery" as well as the rise of "issues of financial aid and lost tuition income for the college." The Council shared his nervousness and asked financial aid and admissions officers to produce figures. But because they had no way of predicting how many students will actually take advantage...
...hard, as Barth noted, to grasp the scale and meaning of the murder of millions of human beings. After statements like Castro's it is harder still. Extraordinary acts of murder slip by us, easing past our dulled sensibilities. Millions have died in Cambodia, as, it seems, will millions more. Persistent reports confirm that the Brazilian government is massacring the Amazon Indians to permit exploitation of the Brazilian hinterland. How can we describe these atrocities, how can we summon up the will to intervene, as the U.N. says we have the right to do, if "genocide" is just another lame...
...tragic, violent and marked by individual atrocities on both sides. But it is not genocide. If we define it as such, and begin to believe our own words, then we will tolerate ever larger crimes, crimes which might accurately be labeled "genocide," even as, on a smaller scale, we tolerate them...
With so much about the film that is fall-on-the-floor funny, it is perhaps ungrateful to complain about Edwards' philosophical aspirations. But "10 " had a shot at being a 10 on the comedy scale, and it is a source of regret to place it in the 6-to-7 range...