Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...something for The Movement? Blockade a speaker and Harvard will provide you with free documentary proof, suitable for framing. It's hard to say which is sillier, the belief that this constitutes effective punishment, or the fear of the Ad Board minority that it was too brutal. It would seem from this farcical episode that Harvard's authorities are divided between those who think it is wrong to defend free speech effectively and those who think it is wrong to defend free speech...
...week began, he was the overwhelming front runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, a Gulliver surrounded by political Lilliputians. But then came the most harrowing public ordeal ever endured by a modern presidential contender: a media trial that made George Romney's "brainwashing" and Edmund Muskie's public tears seem almost laughable in comparison. Like Hester Prynne, Hart stood in the public dock accused of adultery...
...motives behind Mikhail Gorbachev's current peace offensive, why not accept these initiatives as honest gestures? The Soviets have had 40 years of relative peace and prosperity. Their war mentality is getting soft around the edges. I believe Gorbachev displays courage. The voices emanating from both superpowers suddenly seem less bellicose and more conciliatory. That is good news...
More and more students seem to be asking if the education they can get at a private university is proportionately better than the one they could get at a more affordable public university. Some say that the private colleges are pricing themselves out of the market with increasing tuitions...
...characters seem to be caricatures rather than real personalities. General Kangaroo (Hugh Keays-Byrne), for instance, is a one-dimensional fascist, a leader without compassion, love or warmth. He has no traits other than greed and we are left wondering why his devoted cultish followers would ever have taken him seriously...