Word: toughers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...combined circ. 199,000), owned by the Seaboard Coast Line railroad, now CSX Corp. The papers once avoided any mention of, say, a sports team flying rather than taking a train. Cracks one Florida editor: "They used to print stories about cars running over trains." Nowadays the paper hires tougher reporters and is making a creditable effort at improvement...
...individual, and only then is it infectious. Christ, says Leonardo Boff in his Latin American classic Jesus Christ, Liberator, is "the one who disconcerts," the "one who provokes a radical crisis." In white America, though, where oppression at least seems to be somewhere else, it will be much tougher to argue the necessity of a theology of liberation, only when personal transformations are begun--some victories over selfishness won--will the impact begin to be felt...
...prominently situated at the front of the dining hall. Upon seeing actual gay people, they were careful not to make any derogatory comments. It is much easier to deprecate a nameless, faceless entity than it is to attack individuals. If that individuals is close to you it becomes tougher still. Through this sort of exposure, attitudes toward gay people can be changed...
Alice Brown has gone and made life even tougher for Gilbert and Sullivan traditionalists in her astonishing production of The Gondoliers at the Agassiz Theater. Brown has approached Gilbert and Sullivan's last great collaborative effort completely from scratch, as if she had never seen or heard about its traditional staging. No director of Gilbert and Sullivan, to this longtime fan's recollection, has ever quite ignored the D'Oyly Carte orthodoxy the way Brown has. Wilford Leach, in his successful Broadway production of The Pirates of Penzance updated G & S conventions in many ways and even overthrew them...
...while the governor and his predecessor quibble about who has been tougher on crime or who has preserved lower tax rates, the lieutenant governor will get the chance to present his recently developed platform which calls for tax increases to provide funds for local...