Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Generally, those who disagree with us write letters to the Central Committee or the government demanding that the magazine be punished or banned. Many of these complainers either do not wish or do not know how to argue directly with us. Once I asked someone who had sent a critical letter about Ogonyok to the Central Committee why he had not raised the issue with us. "What do you mean, directly with you?" he asked in surprise. "I wanted to know who it was that allowed you to write that way." That is our major problem. For too many...
...edition reports with convincing detail that the Harvard Salient was affiliated with the Harvard/Radcliffe Conservative Club until 1985, when all ties were severed in an angry dispute over the club's decision to invite a South African diplomat to campus. The drama inherent in this history almost makes one wish it were true, but the real facts are much more pedestrian. The Salient has had no connection with the Conservative Club since 1982. Therefore, while many Salient staff members did oppose the club's invitation of Abe Hoppenstein (and its subsequent sponsorship of a speech by Duke Kent Brown...
...course catalogue describes French G as the continuation of French F, which is intended "for students who wish to perfect their knowledge of French." But that description ignores the law professor who makes his way to class at 10 a.m. every Monday, Wednesday and Friday...
Tass also said the talks touched on thenations' relations with the United States, withCastro noting that Cuba "always has been preparedfor normalization of relations with the UnitedStates. However, we so far have not seen acorresponding wish from Washington's side...
...friends who happen to be of a minority background, have been at a table where we were the only minorities present on many occasions. Furthermore, I believe that it is a credit to the minority students at Harvard that they can choose to eat with whomever they wish. Besides, if a group of minority students wishes to sit at a table together, so what? However, it is also true that a table of minorities hardly represents the entire minority population...