Word: wonderments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Right but on the Left, since they mouth humanitarian slogans, and since their victims are those for whom the faculty, given its political leanings, feels little or no sympathy, the university is basically paralyzed, unable with any good conscience to confront them. One can't help wondering whether Dean Epps' charges against the protestors were dismissed because they lacked merit or because the university lacked spine. That the protestors continue to act with such impudence and impunity, despite the university's warnings, shows how much they despise it. They are evidently persuaded that the administration is bluffing and lacks...
...errors in judgment and ending with defiant surrender. So the political process is purified yet again, another heretic is hounded from public life. Some may see a rough frontier justice in the speedy verdict. But others may notice that a less than ennobling odor surrounded the entire affair, and wonder what it is about modern democracy that seems to require living victims...
...bushes, false and inaccurate stories printed, photographers peeking in our windows, swarms of helicopters hovering over our roof, and my very strong wife close to tears because she can't even get in her own house at night without being harassed. And then after all that, ponderous pundits wonder in mock seriousness why some of the best people in this country choose not to run for high office...
...bright. The few who accumulated small nest eggs in the U.S. are rapidly depleting them, to the delight of local merchants. Says Jorge Manriquez, the proprietor of a bicycle shop: "They come in and buy a bicycle, spare tires, everything. It's good for business now, but I wonder what it will be like in six months...
...HARD to excuse writer-director Elaine May for spending $40 million on Ishtar. The movie is no Heaven's Gate-style disaster--it's pleasant and silly and has some truly hilarious moments. But it just makes you wonder what she spent all that money...