Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Binyan's error is in thinking that the Tiananmen Square movement was wasted effort. International opinion was galvanized by the idea and image of non-violent students, gathered to express humanist ideals, bloodily crushed. If this movement is kept alive and if it eventually does succeed, the students of Tiananmen will rank among the historic martyrs of the world. Liu Binyan is right is saying that many things were and are lacking from the movement; he has potentially added a new dimension to the movement...
State Rep. Suzanne M. Bump (D-Braintree) said that Silber had called her and asked her opinion of his chances for winning the Democratic primary. Bump, a supporter of former Attorney General Francis X. Belotti, said she was not impressed by Silber's style, which she described as "philosophically rigid" and "dictatorial...
...Make a concerted effort to solicit student opinion on what other steps can be taken to effect change...
...question as framed in yesterday's forum asked panelists to find solutions to related problems faced by another minority. Namely, Glazer and another professor attempted to articulate how public policy and public opinion should address the minority status of Asian-Americans in this society...
...news. The next thing, usually, is to round up a few experts to say what it all means. Too often, what gets experts quoted -- and called again the next time news relates to their specialty -- is not specific knowledge of a case but crisp, piquant opinion. The expert enjoys the publicity; the journalist enlivens a story. The losers are the public, who get ill-informed speculation masquerading as analysis, and the news subjects, who are assessed in intimate, knowing terms by strangers...