Word: whether
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addressing the question of whether nuclear power should exist," Wilson said, "but looking to make strong and specific criticism as to how the current system could be improved...
...record albums like Survivors, he'll survive quite nicely, and with him, the Rastafarian ideology that gives him his direction. His popularity in places as diverse as Africa and North America proves he has struck a common chord that cuts across class and culture. It's impossible to know whether Marley's popularity in the United States is fed by appreciation or curiosity. The music, fortunately, can be enjoyed on either level...
...whether the movement is Marxist: This is propaganda. The Republican movement has always been socialist in the Irish tradition of radical thinkers. It has never been a Marxist movement, and it is not one now. We are not enamored of what happens in the East bloc countries, and at the same time we don't think democracy exists in the West. We would have a lot more in common with the Third World...
...Cervantes is still talked of, for he had consumed a few too many Martinis before lecturing, began by apologizing for his new set of dentures, and then launched upon Don Quixote by admitting that he'd never managed to read that novel through to the end, and doubting whether anyone in his audience had. When the noise of ruffling academic feathers had subsided, some years later Harvard offered Auden an impressive - sum for a series of lectures...
Alas, it is merely Rocky in Nikes, yet another in the proliferating genre of sports films in which it matters not so much whether the hero wins or loses, but whether or not the audience can witness a satisfying Triumph of the Human Spirit...