Word: straight
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Such radicalism would not be possible without Gorbachev's glasnost. But the new openness in the Soviet media has also exposed irrational superstitions reminiscent of the last days of Czar Nicholas II. The TASS news agency reports with a straight face that aliens stepped out of UFOs in Voronezh. On TV, psychic healers appear frequently with supposed cures for everything from obesity to detached retinas. As in all periods of great stress, the Christian churches in Russia have seldom been fuller...
...this season, a new, young group of players who don't remember the glory days is preparing for a winning season. This team looks forward to a capturing a record eighth-straight Ivy championship, which was slightly cheapened by a Princeton/Yale/Harvard three-way tie last year...
...this is a problem. To The Crimson, the real world is not terribly important. Most Crimson reporters are content to stay within the fantasy-land of Harvard Square. Why bother to get the facts straight? It's all a game, and writing articles is an educational diversion for amateur journalists. So what if you end up creating news instead of reporting...
...overtly inspirational comments on that subject, broad sentimentality or the slightest pomposity about its own mission. In other words, Alfred Uhry's adaptation of his Pulitzer-prizewinning play aspires more to complex observation of human behavior than to simple moralism about it. Precisely because it has its priorities straight, it succeeds superbly on both levels...
...Sokol-Kiev club is on its second North American tour in four years. In its last American campaign, the soviet team tallied eight victories against only one loss. This time around the results have been similarly positive--the club is coming off two straight wins against Boston College and the Maine Mariners, a farm club in the Boston Bruins organization...