Word: stern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emotional range (and the budgets) available to the Ivory-Jhabvala team better than its recent forays into the works of Henry James did. There is a lankishness about this picture that is both disarming and insinuating. Two cheers, at least, for permitting the past to appear not as a stern lesson but as a delicious irrelevance...
February, 1986. NBA commissioner David Stern announces that three-time All-Star Michael Ray Richardson is banned from playing in the NBA for at least two years. Richardson admits to having a cocaine problem despite twice going through the league-sanctioned drug rehabilitation center...
...before Stern banned Richardson, he was at the top of his game. Richardson was second in the NBA in steals, and was averaging seven assists per game this season. Judging from his play, the average fan could not have known that he was addicted to cocaine...
...Dartmouth administration's initial response to the construction of the shanties was swift and seemingly stern. After the Town of Hanover declared the unsightly structures a violation of town ordinances, Dartmouth Dean Edward Shanahan asked the protesters on November 17 "to remove the shanties from the Green today. If you do not, it will be necessary for the college to remove the structures...
Despite the chilling effect of law and custom, liberal ideas and practices surface and are customarily blamed on the West. To many Chinese, Westerners seem enslaved by their animal instincts and unconcerned about family unity. Still, more open attitudes seem to continue. The usually stern Shanghai Liberation Daily raised eyebrows last summer with an evenhanded treatment of the loss of virginity, calling it "not a good thing, but it is not necessarily an irredeemably bad thing." And like other countries, China is learning that courses and books aimed at keeping the lid on sexual activity help feed it. Young women...