Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many people, Goetz's actions were understandable, but I do not think he did the right thing. He has become an inspiration to others who may wish to act out their own revenge. Raul J. Garcia New York City...
...Harvard College, the Forum, inadvertantly spurns Radcliffe, which is mentioned--nowhere in the journal. A more pompous indication of the institutional and hierarchical instincts of these editors comes in their calling themselves "the President and Fellows," a parroting of the University's power structure which one can only wish were satirical. From parroting to sycophancy, there is the spectacle of the Forum's "Advisory Board," a cluster of Harvard's brightest superstars, linked only by the instant recognizability of their names. Do only such prestigious tenured professors make fitting advisors? Or do their names look great on the masthead? (That...
PRESIDENT REAGAN has taught this country a valuable lesson in these last two weeks. He has said that the spirit motivating his official visit to West Germany next month is that of reconciliation--and that it was this spirit that prompted his wish "to put the past behind us." In the last two weeks, and particularly since last Thursday, the President has managed in fact to demonstrate that no sentiment could be more misguided. He has shown us the danger of such forgetting, for it is impossible to forget what one never knew, never understood, never grasped. He has only...
...government, which has received advice on antiguerrilla operations from Israeli intelligence experts, claims not to be intimidated by the Tigers' growing strength. "These terrorists say that their ultimate goal is to take on the Sri Lankan army, face to face, in conventional infantry warfare," says Athulathmudali. "How I wish they would. I am ready. The army is ready." That sentiment is not echoed by all Sri Lankan officers. "We do not have enough troops," says Brigadier Hamilton Wanasinghe, the military commander for the Jaffna peninsula. "We are building our strength, but it will take time...
...scampering out and into traffic. Koko, 13, who is said to have a sign-language vocabulary of about 500 words, indicated to a research associate that she wanted a replacement and picked out a drawing of a Manx, a rare breed with no tail. And now Koko has her wish, an orange male Manx kitten. "Baby," signaled the thrilled Koko. "My cat good." Michael, the center's male talking gorilla who lives in the next cage, would like the cat to be his and has proposed Banana as a name. Koko thought the moniker was "nice," but is still taking...