Word: topically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BURY the issue but President Bok's October I letter on divestment will certainly go far to define the parameters of debate on this heated topic. In responding to fresh proposals in favor of divestment, Bok offers an eloquent analysis of this morally vexing problem while upholding the University's six-year refusal to sell stock in companies doing business in South Africa. He demonstrates, somewhat convincingly, how a policy of divestment is both inconsistent with the university's role in society and a dubious method of promoting social change in racist South Africa...
...word "Celtic" is a real problem. I don't believe there is a Celtic so much as an Irish tradition. 'Celtic' makes the topic seem very remote and isolated, while Irish, Scottish or Welsh relate more personally to someone who might be flipping through a course catalogue, O Coilean says, "'Celtic' relates more to a basketball team...
...spent his graduate years using historical and literary sources to examine the "legendary cycle" of a seventh--century Irish king named Guaire. As a student of the National University of Ireland, he was awarded a traveling studentship to research his topic around the country...
...wrote the first of two articles on the topic, arguing that certain inflammatory statements, even if they led to harm, cannot be suppressed, because the speaker's "contribution to the genesis of the harmful act was superseded by the agent's own judgment...
...issue-of-the-week parade marches on. Abortion, drunken driving, homosexuality, drug abuse, child pornography, rape, cancer: one by one, TV movies take up a topic, adorn it with stars and promote it as another prime-time breakthrough. As drama, these TV crusades have such familiar faults-too simplistic, too preachy, too ponderously "educational"-that a good one can easily get lost in the shuffle. In the case of The Burning Bed, that would be a shame...