Word: groundedness
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Reports filtering out of the country were sketchy because of a nearly complete communications blackout. The regime halted telex and telephone communications when the crackdown began and grounded all flights to the West. Later in the week, the Associated Press, Reuters, and other Western news agencies also lost their communication...
A movement larger and deeper than the one that challenged Vietnam must be built. Probably it is an impossible goal, at least for this country in the nasty years left in this century. But we must try. If it is to mean somthing-if it is to save our souls...
Any call for affirmative action should be grounded at some level in the desire for justice. Minorities, systematically oppressed, deserve some sort of special consideration. Fine. The end, though, is still justice and not simply more minorities in any particular institution.
But this time the rumors floating around the Ivies--the loose talk heard around the IAB, Jadwin Gym and Penn's Palestra--just might be grounded in fact. Harvard has a shot--a real shot--of making this last year in the IAB its best season ever.
But Golden Pond finally belongs to Henry Fonda, who has had to wait until the end of his life for the part of his life. As Norman he is able to bring together, in a single character, the two main strands of his talent. The old gentleman's character...