Word: stoop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Today I was appalled to notice the depths to which those who would malign Blacks will stoop. I refer to the forged anti-racism letters which as Tim Bilodeau, a defensive back on the football team, said. "I think it was just someone who wants to make trouble." We have been confronted with similar situations, and it was ill-conceived for the Review Committee to solicit anonymous comments about our department...
...poem well, he was at his stagey best. His showmanship gave the poem a fine sense of ironic melodrama. Obviously pleased. Yevtushenko bowed out snapping his fingers. An amused audience applauded. If the role of the poet along with that of the intellectual is to raise and not stoop to the public's standards. Yevtushenko came closest to that responsibility with this poem. Samuel Johnson thought poetry should teach by delighting its audience, not that these two values of poetry--the instructive and the entertaining--should be separate or conjunctive. Most often Yevtushenko's performance attempted...
...most vehement parental critics in California banded together in an organization called the Parents' Committee to Free Our Children from the Children of God-a movement that has since spread to other parts of the country. The parents' group charges, among other things, that the Children stoop to kidnaping, hypnotizing and even drugging to keep youngsters in the sect. The outcry has driven many of the Children from California; Ted Patrick, a San Diego aide to Governor Ronald Reagan, has accused them of trying to "destroy the United States...
...agreed last week not to buy any more skins. What happens when the present supply runs low? Well, there is a company near London that makes synthetic skins for $40 (v. $300 for a good leopard skin and $550 for a tiger), but the bandsmen may not have to stoop to that just yet. "There must be thousands of skins from the old raj days being used as rugs or knocking around in attics," said Colonel Rodney Bashford, director of the Royal Military School of Music. "We hope that their owners will leave them to their old regiments when they...
...than a tenuous alliance. In fact, Corry's best piece so far lists the precautions taken by residents of the "good block" to keep from being robbed, raped, beaten or killed: "George Bassat keeps a club next to his front door. Mr. Brouwer no longer sits on his stoop, because he's afraid of being mugged...