Word: alertness
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...I.R.A. claimed responsibility for the attacks and promised more deaths if British troops did not "disengage from Ireland." Meanwhile, Her Majesty's troops were advised by British Forces Radio: "Terrorists only look at you for one reason. Be alert. Stay alive...
...what a flood of taboo thoughts run through one head at these Radical Chic events...But it's delicious. It is as if one's nerve endings were on red alert to the most intimate nuances of status. Deny it if you want! Nevertheless, it runs through every soul here. It is the matter of the marvelous contradictions on all sides. It is like the delicious shudder you get when you try to force the prongs of two horseshoe magnets together... them and us." Radical Chic...
Frazier said it was important to "alert the community to the fact that not only is racism still a problem, but racial violence often follows on the heels of racial attitudes...
...title, then his freedom. Nor is Pu Yi personally attractive; he can be both toady and bully. "He's not a sympathetic character," says Screenwriter Mark Peploe, who is Bertolucci's brother-in- law. "I resisted even trying to understand him when I wrote the script." But any alert viewer can understand the wrenching dislocation of a child who is virtually kidnaped into royalty, raised by thieving eunuchs and condemned to a sham monarchy in a lifelong series of ever smaller Chinese puzzle boxes. The Last Emperor is a metaphor for the prisons we are born in and the prisons...
...Harvard does not have an organized teaching assistant association as does Yale, graduate students may bring any problems they have before the student-faculty Committee on Graduate Education, Fox says. Right now, there are no issues before the committee, he says, but he adds, "We always try to be alert to the needs of every...