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During the 1960s, when Spock and the first generation he had helped raise noisily protested the nuclear arms buildup and the war in Vietnam, critics blamed Spock's "permissive" book for causing all the uproar. "People who call the book permissive never use the book," Spock replied. "They never read it." He had a point. For all its emphasis on love, Spock's book equally stressed parents' obligations to set limits for their children, to teach them by example and precept "what's right and proper...
...dream in the literal sense, figuratively it would be difficult to describe the accomplishment in any other way. When Harvard's Suzie Miller hit a three-pointer to put the Crimson ahead, 69-65, with just 46 seconds remaining in the game, she sent the Harvard bench into an uproar...
Reading "Beyond The Sound Barrier" about the new Miss America, Heather Whitestone, and the controversy in the deaf community over her choice to speak rather than use American Sign Language brought to mind a similar uproar. It occurred when I spoke rather than signed at the 1988 Academy Awards while presenting the Oscar for Best Actor. I was labeled "offensive" by the deaf community, and my family and I endured years of mean-spirited criticism. My response to those who disapprove of Whitestone's choice is that all of us have dreams to fulfill and each one of us takes...
Other highlights were a powerful break-away slam-dunk by Mike Scott that sent the crowd into a huge uproar. The dunk also pulled the Crimson to within 14 with 14 minutes to play. Yet this spark was quickly dashed out by a nine-point run by Princeton...
Willey still lives outside Richmond, Va., and has refused any comment to the press. Mild public interest in her case was easily overwhelmed last week by the uproar over Monica Lewinsky. But the first story has become an integral part of the second. Among the directives in the mysterious written "talking points" that Tripp says Lewinsky passed along to her is one that proposes, "You now find it completely plausible that [Willey] herself smeared her lipstick, untucked her blouse, etc." If Kenneth Starr is able to determine that this stage direction was an inducement to perjury on the President...