Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter tried to be philosophical about the polls-"They go up and down, as you know"-and practical about their import. On the advice of his White House political aides, he made a campaign-style trip to Illinois and West Virginia, where he attacked what he called, in one prepared statement, the "iron triangle of bureaucracy, congressional committees and well-organized special interests that can mobilize strong opposition to the reforms we need...
...continuing attrition leads some Washington officials to hope that Castro's venture will eventually bog him down in a Viet Nam-style quagmire, despite his Soviet support. It is frequently pointed out that Cuba's manpower commitment in Africa is greater, in proportion to the country's 10 million population, than American involvement at the height of the Viet...
...amidst 450 acres of sweeping lawns and arching elms, Andover brims with history. Paul Revere engraved its seal; John Hancock signed its charter; George Washington addressed the school in 1789 (on horseback). English classes meet in a cupolaed schoolhouse designed by Charles Bulfinch in 1819; red brick Georgian-style buildings, many built through the beneficence of a Morgan partner in the 1920s, grace the campus...
...their best, the electives have the intensity and ferment of Kelly Wise's novel and drama course. Wise's teaching style is vastly different from that of Georgie Hinman, a legendary Latin teacher of an earlier Andover who stabbed penknives into his peg leg to express disapproval and made students flush bad translations down the toilet. Wise, in contrast, has a more casual attitude toward the 14 seniors in his class. "I don't act as a sage," says Wise. "Sometimes I lie and dissemble and distort to provoke them, to make it impossible for them...
...Diego decree, approved by a 12-to-l ratio, states that homosexual behavior is always wrong. Given that premise, the conclusion is obvious. The Presbyterians could no more ordain openly practicing homosexuals than they could accept those who continually advocate or indulge in any other life-style that the church regards as sinful. The church thus rejected a liberal policy that had been proposed by a special task force. But the new document says that homosexuality should not be singled out as any worse a sin than pride, greed or adultery, and it denounces "homophobia" (hatred and fear of homosexuals...