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...level all emotion will be encapsulated in words with the expressive power of Kevin Costner's face. On another, jargon will be so empty as to erase all valuable insights. And behind the screen of such an impotent vocabulary, behind all those psychoanalytic terms and cultural verbs, the abyss of violence, hate and hunger in the world will still stretch. To which we will only respond with a live transmission from CNN, and a denial that we can describe it with any meaning; that we can judge it morally; that we can do a thing about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: For the Moment | 12/10/1992 | See Source »

...lack of support may prevent a person from coming out, Cohen says. "The most difficult thing is to come out into an abyss, into a void," she says. "The presence of community is very important...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Pros and Cons of Coming Out at Harvard | 11/3/1992 | See Source »

...countries until approved by all of them. "The Danes' decision has blown a hole in the treaty below the waterline," argued British Conservative M.P. Sir Patrick McNair-Wilson, with scarcely suppressed glee. Still others hailed the plebiscite as a triumph for democracy, highlighting the abyss between voters and their political leaders who, in Denmark's case, had campaigned vigorously for the treaty's approval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Be, or Not To Be E.C. | 6/15/1992 | See Source »

Schmidt originally likened his swap of tenured life for Whittle's risky project to "leaping into the abyss." But after bringing Yale to the precipice with a projected $15 million deficit, a scary vantage point should seem familiar. (See related stories beginning on page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Goodbye, Eli | 6/8/1992 | See Source »

...exactly been unknown that race relations were worsening; a hundred voices had said so. But not until last week did many whites and blacks realize how deep an abyss had been opening at their feet. And last week's violence is all too likely to make the gulf still wider and deeper. For blacks the acquittal, and for whites the aftermath, tended to confirm each race's worst fears and suspicions about the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fire This Time | 5/11/1992 | See Source »

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