Word: veils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...OFTEN QUESTION the motives of journalists, including myself. They at once perform the easiest and most difficult jobs in the world: difficult, because they must face the real world every day, see its problems and hear its cries; easy, because they can hide behind a veil of objectivity and assume that because they are chronicling the world's pain, someone else will relieve it. This article is one example; I could assume that the mere act of writing it will change people's minds, break them away from the apathy and frustration that seem to engulf...
Although administrators have declined comment and Strauch has conducted his committee's meetings in a veil of secrecy, it now appears inevitable that Harvard and Radcliffe will move to some form of equal access admissions. This will probably mean a consolidation of the Harvard and Radcliffe admissions staffs, regardless of the outcome of the current round of merger talkes...
Unfortunately, after this promising start in the introduction at ripping the veil off the underlying structural causes of language's decay, Strictly Speaking falls prey to the very deficiency it is describing: it is written in such a comical, anything-for-a-laugh-at-all-those-illiterate-people tone that all analysis is obscured. Instead of learning the realtionship between social transformations and the way people talk, we are told reporters are too self-important, politicians too aftaid of being spontaneous, social scientists too attached to impressive-sounding jargon. As for the common, non-proffessional man, well, he comes across...
Controlled Passion. It was this widespread flouting of the 1920 law that prompted the government to ask permission for abortion during the first ten weeks of pregnancy. President Valery Giscard d'Estaing entrusted the bill to Health Minister Simone Veil, 47, mother of three. She argued the case with intelligence and controlled passion. Only once did she lose her composure-when a centrist Deputy shouted, "Madame Minister, do you want to send children to the ovens?" Mme. Veil, a survivor of Auschwitz who saw her parents and brother perish in the ovens of World War II, scribbled a note...
...being an effort to rectify structures that prevent the poor from feeding themselves, is an attempt to preserve them. These current international and derivative internal economic orders jeopardize not only the lives of millions of people around the world, but more seriously for many involved, threaten to rip the veil away from the system of development which we, but mostly the poor, have paid to support. The very real shortages of food in the world are, conspicuously enough, brought on by an interaction of supply shortages in the rich countries, elite-dominated distribution of resources such as fertilizer...