Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...UNIVERSITY didn't say, "We take seriously any charge of threatened murder or assault." The different responses make the University seem to find possession of small amounts of drugs more serious than a violent domestic encounter. Harvard can thus be thought to be telling the community that it shares the traditional--and sexist--notion that domestic disputes between men and women are to be expected, that men will be men, and that sometimes a few good kicks can do wonders for a relationship...
...avoid earning a reputation for condoning drug use on its faculty. But if that's the motivation behind the response to Loury's most recent arrest, the Administration should have said that during the Ginsburg fiasco and not at a time when such a statement makes another indiscretion seem acceptable...
...Second, in the event of violent clashes between left and right, the President would have scapegoats to blame for El Salvador's failure to live up to the strictures of the Central American peace accord. "Everyone wants to jockey for p.r. advantage," says a U.S. State Department official. "They seem to have figured out that when the January deadline ((for the peace plan)) rolls around, no one will be in complete compliance. So the thing to do is appear to have done more than anyone else...
...Demuth could not place his deepest sexual predilections in the open, he could still make art from them. Seen from our distance, that of a pornocratic culture drenched in genital imagery, the skill with which he did this might seem almost quaint. But in Demuth's day, the public atmosphere was, of course, very different, and he, like Marcel Duchamp and other artists in the avant- garde circle that formed around the collectors Louise and Walter Arensberg, took a special delight in sowing his work with sexual hints. The handlebar of a vaudeville trick rider's bicycle turns into...
...horror of the proletarian dictatorship, many single children seem to detest physical labor. When some 21,000 Beijing pupils were asked to write a short composition on the topic "What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?", only 5% indicated that they wanted to become workers. Few wanted to be farmers. Most wanted to become taxi drivers, hotel attendants or Premier, because those occupations are perceived to be easy and comfortable...