Word: uplifts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Take me, for instance. Sometimes a tiny voice tells me, "Leo, you are creating soft-centered, runny confections again." But then I think: There's new stuff here. There's the part about how you can make cleaning your house a vibrant symphony of joyous motion, and the big uplift when my cat turned out to have one of the highest feline IQs ever tested. There's a lesson in all this: deactualize all those shoulds and musts. I believe it was Clint Eastwood who observed, "Let love make your day." I could go on like this forever...
...Dick Rosser as president, DePauw was slipping," says Eugene Delves, trustee chairman of the small (2,350) private university in Greencastle, Ind. Not anymore. DePauw is described in the latest edition of a leading college guide as "now clearly on its way back up." A prime source of the uplift has been money, in record amounts. A fund drive that started three years ago has topped $106 million, most of it from DePauw's uncommonly loyal alumni...
...says, the school was still regarded "as a second-tier institution, with no cohesiveness and notable for its can't-haves. We weren't allowed a law school or a program for doctorates." GM now has both. And Johnson vows there will be more where all this uplift has come from. "We will reach the level of Carnegie-Mellon in eight years," he says. "We will soon be a national university...
...editorial in this week's The New Republic on preventing teen motherhood barely mentions improved sex education and availability of contraceptives. Instead, the editors jump onto the moral regeneration band-wagon, stressing a moral uplift to be led by upper-class Blacks and the church...
...always disappointing when an engaging heel abandons his unprinciples to embrace moral uplift. Especially since Power has already made its points about the manipulation of political imagery in the sharply satirical sequences that show Pete creating TV spots for his candidates --sequences full of conviction, energy and a knowing cynicism that are missing from the film's more exhortatory passages. Around these later commercials for responsibility the air of the obligatory ever hovers...