Word: topic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...horror of the proletarian dictatorship, many single children seem to detest physical labor. When some 21,000 Beijing pupils were asked to write a short composition on the topic "What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?", only 5% indicated that they wanted to become workers. Few wanted to be farmers. Most wanted to become taxi drivers, hotel attendants or Premier, because those occupations are perceived to be easy and comfortable...
...year, those of us in living room seats will root for other exciting, entertaining movies. And every year, we'll be disappointed. It just doesn't seem fair that the Best Picture Award so frequently goes not to the best movie, but to the best movie with a "relevant" topic...
Maybe that's the solution: a new category. The Best Picture Award will go to the movie that everyone loved and talked about and told their friends to go see. And the Best Movie On A Relevant Topic Award will be presented to ...the kind of movie that always wins the Oscar these days...
Watching churchmembers go table to table in the dining halls, one could sense a sort of horror. These people had breeched a rule of decorum by bringing religion into the sanctity of the dining room. It is not that religion has disappeared as a topic of conversation at Harvard. But how often is religion discussed in terms of what people actually feel and believe rather than as an abstraction...
...topic of Social Security cuts is such a hot item the negotiators refer to it as "the unmentionable." Asked who made the suggestion, Sen. Bob Packwood (R-Ore.) said, "I think the Senate chaplain left...