Word: topicalities
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When it was originally produced in 1979, Sherman’s play initiated a long-overdue look into the experience of gays in the Holocaust, a topic that was hardly broached for decades after World...
...that taxpayer position. That’s right: bend over.”When he’s not performing a show, Newell is willing to talk about the American penal system or “slave labor” in America with anyone who wants to listen. The topic of American injustices has kept him in Harvard Square for almost two decades, he says.Despite the issues of governmental schemes and illegal drug use that run through Newell’s show, he has still managed to win over his juvenile viewers, who, according to Newell, have sometimes asked...
...deliver a lecture in their field of study twice—the first time in 24 seconds or less, and the second time using exactly seven words. 1976 Nobel Laureate and Harvard professor of chemistry emeritus William Lipscomb’s speech, referencing this year’s fowl topic, read as follows: “Chicken lays egg. It’s a standing ovation.” Fittingly, his words were met with just that...
...This is progress, however modest. In the past, the vast majority of Chinese companies single-mindedly focused on growth and profit, heedless of the impact their activities had on the environment and communities. Things began to change a few years ago, when "social responsibility went from being a topic pushed on China by others to one it took on as its own," says Zhou Weidong, who runs the China branch of the U.K.-based NGO Business for Social Responsibility. Zhou and others largely credit the government for pressuring companies to contribute to a "harmonious society," Beijing's catchphrase for promoting...
...voted for George W. Bush, and that fact was no secret to him or his staff. But he reached out to me, and to others in the faith community across the political spectrum, because we shared a common concern. I was impressed by that, and by the topic of gathering down in Austin...