Word: note
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...want to quibble too much with Hirsch's choice of entries. (Although I wish W.H. Auden and Charles Schulz's Peanuts had made the list.) I'm not trying to harp on his errors. (Although the good citizens of Tallahassee will be thrilled to note that Jacksonville is listed as the capital of Florida.) But we must be wary of a 600-page list of information with an implicit message that says "You must read me." Perhaps knowledge is power, but is that knowledge confined to the superficial identifications E.D. Hirsch finds important? We should keep in mind another educational...
...blame is a cornerpiece of the Reagan political legacy. While the buck always stopped with Harry Truman, Ronald Reagan seems content to feign ignorance and absent-mindedness time and again, letting his hand-picked subordinates resign one after another in disgrace and shame. Politicians in both parties have taken note of this absolute rejection of responsibility and learned...
...dubious journalistic test of airport security last week, a / correspondent and producer for France's TF-1 television network tried to place suspicious packages on three flights leaving John F. Kennedy International Airport. When an alert TWA employee spotted one of the packages, he found a note inside saying, "Congratulations! You have found our phony bomb." The two men were arrested by the FBI and charged with conspiracy to violate air-safety laws...
Although the Harvard women's basketball team finished tied for first place in the Ivy League, the squad ended the season on a sour note. The Crimson lost a chance at capturing an outright title when it fell to eventual Co-Champion Dartmouth in the season finale, 72-65, at Briggs Cage...
Even though I had been dreading the moment all year, I fought to keep the abject terror out of my voice. "Yes, lunch on the fourth would be terrific," I burbled into the phone with false bonhomie. "I'll make a note of it right...