Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Different Voice suggested that their are two ways of thinking about questions of morality, called by Gilligan the "care voice" and the "justice voice." While the justice voice tends to accent abstract principles and laws as reasons for moral behavior, the care voice deals more with emotions and relationships between people...
...objective was to force Congress to grapple with the constitutional implications on a concrete, tangible level. No longer would these qualifiers be bandied about in an abstract, questionable plane. If Congress later decided to negate these fundamental rights, for which the Puerto Rican people had expressed such strong feelings, then the U.S. alone would be responsible for discriminating against its own citizens and perpetuating colonialism...
Maus is, above all, a story of a family and how something which is now, in so many minds, an abstract historic events, can still touch everyday lives. Spiegelman realizes the historical importance of the Holocaust--how could he fail...
...most pure and abstract battles remain to be fought over the use of religious symbols in the public arena -- an issue rife with irony in a country ! that stamps its coins with the words "In God We Trust." Later this year the Supreme Court will decide whether to hear an appeal from the city of Zion, Ill., which was ordered by a lower court to scrap the city seal, consisting of a ribbon with the words "God Reigns" and a shield containing a dove, sword, crown and Latin cross. The device was adopted in 1902. The city argues that...
...More abstract -- even spiritual -- ingredients also help put California first. "This is still 'Land's End,' " says sociologist Harry Edwards, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. "California continues to offer a sense of hope and opportunity that other parts of the country do not and cannot." Speed and strength are available anywhere, but in few places are they as prized as in the Golden State. As author Herbert Gold observed, "This Dorado of escapees from elsewhere has produced a new race -- the Californian. So much athletic grace is almost unnatural...