Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these strikers are still being unjustly treated and deserve more attention than just an occasional news story or editorial. A visit to these picket lines by a presidential candidate would do more than just lift morale...
...These poor kids," Hart said, showing the most feeling he would emote in his entire visit to Boston. Later he would even scold a press aide for yelling at some of the children. They had run up the staircase, thereby fouling the flow of the well-orchestrated media event. "It's their house," Hart sternly said...
Poor Hart is hardly a charmer and these kids didn't respond. So after 30 seconds of trying he and Flynn came to the business of their visit to the shelter...
Although I found the entire visit to the children ludicrous from the start, it was this last comment which made me realize the pathetic role we force on the disadvantaged in our society. We force them to sell their self-esteem to satisfy our desire for pathos. America runs on pathos. Christmas, elections--these children are required to unwittingly expose themselves to the world in order to get the help they deserve. Some of the parents spoke at the press conference, but at least then the press was forbidden to take their pictures. The children are not so lucky...
Each year, several hundred athletes in major sports visit Harvard for a weekend, with the tab picked up by a special fund contributed by alumni...