Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...live in a society that is beginning to allow, albeit quietly, the euphemistically-named "withholding of care" from infants born with Down's Syndrome and other birth defects. The imbalanced emphasis on "quality of life" issues--of both the child and the parents in this case--obscures the very real act of infanticide. But we want quality of life...
...Nation truly survive as a political organization, or will its roots of crime and violence allow the police to continue to fight to destroy them? One thing is certain--the Nation is coming, and "the City will never be the same when the Nation goes downtown...
...Nation truly survive as a political organization, or will its roots of crime and violence allow the police to continue to fight to destroy them? One thing is certain--the Nation is coming, and "the City will never be the same when the Nation goes downtown...
...Allow me to confide that at the Kahlua Boston Music Awards, a 12-year-old gala ceremony celebrating Boston's best musicians, which were held a week ago yesterday at the Orpheum Theater, these feelings were not only realized but magnified. With first-hand experience in place of television's distance, the situation only got better: celebrities were within reach, I was the devotee, the anticipation and anxiety were tangible. The impersonality of watching from a couch melted away in the midst of the bustle and excitement. I felt empowered with a control over what I saw and heard...
...tone and diction of Elegy have an almost prosaic feel is not an insult to (NOT READABLE) Thus, Jones' long lines and frequent enjambment aid his devotion to his text and to his images. Well-crafted, careful expressions then carry the rhythm and pulse of the pieces and allow the poems to remain true and real...