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...interviewed on CNN and called it "a great speech." He said, "As a matter of fact, Marilyn and I were talking about it afterward. It was just the kind of speech we had hoped for." There are only two possibilities here. Either this comment is exactly the kind of mindless gushing that stamped Quayle with the image of an idiot -- which he claims is unjustified -- or what he said reflected his considered views on the subject. Which is it? Well, I don't think Quayle is an idiot...
...wasn't just the beauty of the sight but the contrast form what had gone before that struck me. Somehow, Widener seemed profound, and so different from the mindless hi-I'm-Jacques-from-Podunk freshman blather. I headed toward the Widener steps and began climbing; the buzz of freshmen melted away...
Basically, "Guarding Tess" is a good mindless flick. Enjoy watching several gun-toting men tiptoe around an old lady's flawlessly decorated house. Try to figure out the bizarre and rather sadistic plot twist. But whatever you do, don't think about the movie when it's over--or you'll realize that what seemed like a fun way to flow off an afternoon is really a grossly flawed attempt to milk a single joke for far too long...
...seemed as though I was Losing my individuality, melting anonymously into the crowd as just one more of the thousands of blonde female undergraduates standings alongside the parade. It was more or less mindless...
...this is utopian dreaming. If we were to leave off argument and think kindly for a moment, on the premise that men and women will go on mixing with one another in the current mindless and anarchic way, we might spin the thought that good can come of each sex thinking the best of the other, and might see the converse truth: that only bad can come of each one thinking the worst. Tolerance and decency are creative, civilizing traits. A rising standard of expectation -- a mutual hope, a sympathetic mingling of desires -- will lift all boats. Quite a long...