Word: topically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is going to be a preface to another open meeting," said Frederick T. Smith, the Law School representative to the ACSR, referring to a meeting scheduled for the a fall, at which the committee will formally invite community opinion on the nuclear topic, among other issues...
Last night's discussion revealed the extremely complicated questions involved with investments in nuclear weapons and suggested the potential difficulty the Corporation and the ACSR will have in reaching a concession on the topic...
...topic, loosely defined, was "Peace in a Nuclear Age." And though he paid sample attention to the time-honored forms of the evangelist, he also said nuclear weapons must be done away with, decried the "chasm" between rich and poor in Central America, and declared that racial injustice in South Africa must cease. What's more, his actions of the past few weeks indicate Graham will practice what he preaches the Reagan Administration urged him to boycott a Moscow conference of religious leaders on disarmament. Graham, a longtime friend of the White House, mulled it over and then made...
...Ridge-Slope Fox and the Knife Thrower" in both the book's best and most freewheeling essay. In it Hoagland seems more than anything else to meditate simply and carefully on the complexity of life. Again leaping from one topic to the next, he exults in his sightings of animals while wondering if he will catch a glimpse of the fox and then considers what an ordeal solitude actually is, despite its perverse and mostly pseudo-intellectual glamour. Then he considers the differences of life in the city and the country (it is not exactly that life is slow...
...criticized the substance of the Reagan aid cuts proposals many a time, and need not repeat those objections. But the President's five-minute sermon from the mount this weekend suggests an equally fundamental criticism: that on a topic as critical as federal education policy, he remains ignorant of the ramifications of his recommendations and uninterested in learning more: If the President's "working vacations" are only going to breed haphazard pronouncements on issues of grave importance, we'd just as soon see our Chief Executive eliminate the "work" from his vacations altogether...