Word: reference
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...magazines refer to our generation as material girls and boys, but I always believed that wasn't true here. Undergraduate participation in public service is at one of its highest levels ever. Surely all those people can't be doing it just to pad their resumes...
Administration conservatives were stunned by the report's candor. They were particularly outraged that he did not preach abstinence alone and refer euphemistically to body fluids rather than semen. "The White House doesn't like the C word. But if you don't talk about condoms, people are going to die. So I talk." Liberals were amazed that Koop had produced a reasoned report with such compassion for homosexuals, whom he had once called antifamily. Phyllis Schlafly, who said the report sounded as if it had been edited by a gay-rights group, lashed out against Koop...
...keeping with The Crimson News Board's gender neutral policy, we will no longer employ the term "freshman." Instead, we will use the words "freshman" and "freshpeople" to refer to first-year undergraduates...
...Sironi, whose reputation as an artist has badly suffered from his devotion to Fascism: he stayed loyal to Mussolini right through to 1943. The figure on horseback in The White Horse and the Pier, 1920-22, draws on Italy's long history of equestrian hero images and may refer to the Duce. Nevertheless, as painting, Sironi's dark, emphatically delineated compositions, with their massive figures and Brunelleschian weight of architecture, are often quite superb, a reminder that you cannot necessarily judge an artist by his or her political ideology...
...loyalties" of the title thus refer to more than just the allegiance Bernstein's parents had to the Communist Party and to their Government. The real struggle in the book is between Carl's loyalty to (and love for) his parents and his search for the truth about their lives. At times his quest becomes traumatic. Bob Woodward makes cameo appearances, comforting his former partner when he breaks into tears at the memory of a childhood schoolmate calling his mother a Communist...