Word: wonderments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stalled. Mass demonstrations have given way to smaller skirmishes waged by a hard-core group of activists, and Israel has yet to concede so much as an inch of land. Meanwhile, the world's attention has been diverted by more dramatic events elsewhere. Frustrated and embittered, many Palestinians wonder whether they can afford the price necessary to reach a compromise...
...prognosis, according to Spence, may be a gloomy one. "One may wonder, and I occasionally do, if the implicit message in all of this isn't that the American conception of the research university is no longer viable," he writes...
Krischer is the worst offender--he makes Larry a flat, hackneyed homosexual. He invariably delivers his lines looking vacuously into space, with his hand pressed to his chest. This becomes so habitual a gesture we begin to wonder if his body parts have somehow been fused together...
...happen to agree with him that the current administration is on the wrong side of the Central America issue--but it is not up to me or Baer to scare the daylights out of those who disagree with us by dropping unidentified phony draft notices in their mailboxes. I wonder if Baer would cheer if the campus pro-life movement got a list of all undergraduate women who have had abortions, and then sent them phony letters from the president asking them to report downtown for a psychological interview. That would shock these women out of their complacency, right...
Unlike the ethics and pay legislation passed by Congress earlier this month, the Los Angeles proposals do not make up for banned outside income with salary increases. This leads some critics to wonder whether many Angelenos, faced with relatively low city wages and the prospect of having to reveal their most intimate financial affairs, won't avoid public service if the code goes into effect. Says Michael Harmon, a professor of public administration at George Washington University: "The implicit message is one of distrust...