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...This method of retort, I fear, has been largely effective, and not only in this instance. It has not succeeded in preventing the sensitizing of language or the broadening of the curriculum, but it has succeeded in stripping these actions of any moral force. It is presumed that if the aggrieved party is placated, it is done not out of a sense of remorse, but rather under pressure...
...they're black." Don says Geffen told the band to whiten up and lighten up "not because they were a racist record company. They were only reflecting a basic reality of the music business." But then, deflecting such realities, changing the perspectives and finding a soulful congeniality is the method behind the band's mad music...
Bush promises to be different. Although he adopted the Reagan method during the campaign, stage-managing his every appearance and sequestering himself from the press, he held more news conferences in the ten weeks following the election than Reagan did in his last two years in office. "I think you will see him act as President very much as he has been in the last few weeks," says White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater...
Another problem is that Hirsch strays from his proposed selection method of avoiding general or expert information. In his chapter on the Conventions of Written English, undoubtedly the worst in the volume, he includes entries like...
...share their best researchers and ideas with rivals. But retired Admiral Bobby Inman, former deputy director of the CIA who headed MCC until 1986, melted their resistance. Now under the stewardship of former Texas Instruments executive Grant Dove, MCC has brought to market its first products, including a new method for connecting chips to circuit boards and software that uses artificial intelligence to speed the development of complex microcircuits...