Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...zone." The movie seems unnecessarily forced and cautious. "Laugh at this!" it tells you. "Cry now!" it yells. In between these climactic urges for audience emotion, The Object of My Affection stomps all over thin ice. Though mindfully tries for fluffy appeal, it ends up cracking under the weight of its cautiousness...
Diplomas are tangibly rather flimsy--a piece of paper with some calligraphy and seals (not the handsome sheepskin of old), oversized and suitable for framing--but symbolically they're worth their weight in gold, representing four years of blood, sweat and toil and, as our parents would hasten to point out, upwards of $120,000. What, if anything, our diplomas should actually symbolize beyond our own hard work is the question raised by the two Undergraduate Council bills recently addressed by Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis...
...Americans, disenchanted with their participation in the Great War, had turned their backs on the world and reverted to isolationism. Rigid neutrality acts denied the President authority to discriminate between aggressor states and their victims and thereby prevented the U.S. from throwing its weight against aggression...
...tangible reaction from France and Britain would have led to his fall. But since nothing happened, Hitler played on the "cowardice" of democratic principles. That cowardice was confirmed by the shameful Munich Agreement, by which France and Britain betrayed their alliance with Czechoslovakia and abandoned it like a dead weight. At every turn, Hitler derided his generals and their lack of audacity. In 1939 he stupefied the entire world by reaching a nonaggression pact with Stalin. Though they had never met, the two dictators appeared to get along perfectly; it was said that a sort of empathy existed between them...
...right. Then this anonymous bystander clambers up onto the vehicle of war and says something to its driver, which comes down to us as: "Why are you here? My city is in chaos because of you." One lone Everyman standing up to machinery, to force, to all the massed weight of the People's Republic--the largest nation in the world, comprising more than 1 billion people--while its all powerful leaders remain, as ever, in hiding somewhere within the bowels of the Great Hall of the People...