Word: statement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...animosity and public scorn John Y. Brown generated during his short tenure as the Buffalo owner, he did make one statement that points to the heart of the business dilemma in sports...
Even those who had never read Camus became familiar with the chain-smoking figure in a trench coat, fatefully evocative of Bogart and Yves Montand. Much was made of his celebrated statement that in a purposeless world the only vital question was one of suicide. His novels The Stranger and The Fall describe souls out of touch with a moral landscape; The Plague watches townspeople succumb to a literal and spiritual disease. It is small wonder that at his death Camus seemed the spokesman of despairing existentialism, a cinematic figure as doom-ridden as any of his characters...
Given this pugilistic stance, this unwillingness to cut his conscience to fit the reigning Paris fashions, it is not surprising that Camus became a figure of global controversy. It was a difficult role to assume; he struggled with it until his death, aware that any political or artistic statement would be distorted. "One never says a quarter of what one knows," he confessed. "Otherwise all would collapse. How little one says, and they are already screaming." Even posthumously the man was not safe. In the '60s the New York Times listed him as one of seven heroes...
Dukakis released a statement yesterday that said,"The bill will bring the collective bargaining process of the Carmen's union into line with that of other public employee unions and insure that the property-tax-payers who foot the bill for the T are taken into consideration when wages are awarded...
...faculty cabinet is an independent body, elected by and from the Medical School faculty. It is the deans of the Medical School who carry out the administrative duties most visible to students, and in that sense they act as Dean Tosteson's cabine. The Crimson's version of my statement is a total misrepresentation...