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...understanding of basketball. However, I was unsure whether he had been able to communicate it to his players. He had been so harsh when speaking to me that it seemed a reasonable assumption that he might have had problems working with his ball players. Perhaps this was at the root of the problems of the basketball team...
...know when you go to the grocery store whether you are going to have enough money." Old people complain about the dwindling buying power of their Social Security checks. Except on university campuses, Viet Nam is discussed not in terms of morality but of its costs. Says Carolyn Root, a Sheboygan sales clerk: "Lord knows how many kids we could send through school if we just cut out a few of those B-52 raids...
...word amnesty comes from the Greek root amnestia, which means to forget, overlook, or become oblivious to. Amnesia has the same root. Amnesty does not mean to ask forgiveness--but to wipe the slate clean. To demand this is to ask the government to admit to the American public that its Asia policy was wrong and that those who have opposed it were right...
...little perspective. Many of these writers operate on a number of assumptions that are questionable and sometimes infuriatingly simplistic. Samples: the nuclear family is the root of all evil; the difference between men and women is not biological but the result of male exploitation. But a country is apt to get not only the politicians but the polemics it deserves. In ignoring history, in being statistics-prone, in using hard-sell copy to deplore, among other things, the effects of consumer oversell, in invoking the individual's absolute right to absolute self-expression at all costs, in preaching that...
...Undergraduate Life--that yielded some 20 different housing proposals in almost as many days. All of the proposals begin with the simple recognition that, over the next four years, there will just be too many bodies at Harvard-Radcliffe to continue with current housing arrangements. Each proposal, at root, is built upon basic assumptions about what is crucial to the "Harvard experience...