Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then bedlam. An argument broke out among the six judges. The Rumanian coach ranted. The crowd chanted Davidova's name and clapped in unison. A smaller Rumanian claque shouted "Nah-dee-yah! Nah-dee-yah!" Nadia stood motionless, arms akimbo, eyes far away. Twenty-eight minutes after her dismount, the scoreboard flashed the disheartening news: 9.85, only good enough for the silver...
Undeterred, the women extended their underground activities. An organization was formed in Leningrad last March with 20 active members and several hundred supporters. They produced three more issues of their underground magazine, renaming it Maria. Early on, Maria made the intriguing ideological argument that Marxism was dead and that the only viable alternative was feminism. It went on to say that women should persuade men to burn their draft orders rather than serve in Afghanistan-a crime that would cost the draft resisters long terms in prison. The second issue declared the group's solidarity with Afghan women fighting...
...Executive Director Marjorie Lightman, 39, who taught ancient history at New York City's Hunter College until 1976 and is one of the institute's founders. "To be a scholar, you need people around you who want to spend time in the intellectual process. You need criticism, argument, debate. We felt we could go on with these things, even though many of us are no longer making a living in the academic world...
...year ago, when the court ruled that judges could close some pretrial hearings to press and public. The Justices reasoned that the Sixth Amendment right to a public criminal trial could be waived by a defendant and could not then be invoked by the press. That line of argument obviously seemed to imply that judges could close not only hearings but also actual criminal trials if a defendant agreed. Indeed, only a week after the decision, the Virginia Supreme Court affirmed Judge Richard H.C. Taylor's decision to bar two reporters from a murder trial in a courtroom...
...dramatically, did "The Two Cultures," the title of a 1959 Cambridge lecture. Snow decried the willful ignorance of humanists about science and the chasm between arts and technology. The speech drew worldwide attention, including a scathing ad hominem attack by Cambridge Don F.R. Leavis. Snow's argument no longer seems controversial because it has been so generally accepted: it is important for humanists and everyone else to know what scientists are doing...