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...results, or worse, abandoned due to their excessive costliness, against which Andorsky rails. To cite a historical example, would Alexander Fleming have isolated penicillin if he had to conduct his research via an unmanned satellite? I stake my final rebuttal on admittedly risky ground: what Andorsky dubs that "nice sentiment" about the space station being an inspiration to humanity and a symbol of "what's right with America" and the world. Andorsky fumbles in his effort to get a grasp on the value of idealism, perhaps because there is no universally accepted definition. Yet it strikes me as significant...
...sausages for breakfast made for a woozily joyful Christmas, and it was omnipresent death, not omnipresent divorce, that threatened childhood's serenity. Can a movie that faithfully reflects this life--at once harder and more innocent than life in America today--and does so without condescension, preachment or gross sentiment, make its way in these times...
Eagly, a recipient who will work for the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago, echoed the sentiment. The fellowship provides a "great opportunity to do a dream job," she said...
...nice sentiment, but I don't think that a child growing up in a poor, crime-ridden ghetto would buy it. Neither would Bosnians, Rwandans or the homeless people that line the streets of Cambridge. Before we built monuments to ourselves in the sky, we must halt the economic decay of our cities, alleviate human suffering and help our neighbors acquire the basic necessities of life. The pro-Freedom slogan reads: "The Space Station: It's About Life on Earth." Maybe, but dealing with poverty, crime, famine and war are about "life on earth," too. Once we've made some...
McGuire proposed to end coeduation at Harvard. When you've finished stomaching that sentiment as sincere, consider his argument: Harvard is a men's institution, he asserts, and women should leave. Radcliffe should be operated separately from Harvard, for women exclusively. McGuire's expressed opinions concern only men, defending men's education, and preserving masculinity as some stylized Greek idea. He never considers women or women's education, itself. Women are incidental to McGuire's master plan, where men wear the togas in the house...