Word: apartness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most important in this too often dark and turbulent world--qualities of compassion, the meaningful pursuit of excellence in the service of human needs, and great love. As we mourn their passing, we should be thankful for them. It was once written of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., "Standing apart is one way of standing out." Let us hope that John and RuSelle's standing Loneliness' and isolation will be instructive...
...that a whole generation has become addicted to the telephone, using it for everything from courtship to Dial-a-Prayer, a new phenomenon is occurring: the indispensable telephone system is beginning to fail us. The failure seems to have started when the A T & T monopoly was broken apart at the start of this year, or maybe it has just got worse since then. Have you noticed how much longer it takes between the time you finish dialing and the time the first ring comes? Or how often you dial and there's no ring...
...explains. "He's a happy character with a good sense of humor but he also has a dark side which comes across as his emotional side in the play." Sabath adds both his sense of humor and his strong emotions allow him to adjust to the whole world falling apart around him. He is the one who is forced to deal with change when the other characters don't realize what is happening...
Semiotics had a different influence here than that of straight public relations because it captured the language of the people itself instead of preventing the government from portraying Solidarity as an illegitimate organization. But the danger in employing semioticians was that they wanted to take the process of breaking apart language to reveal symbolic postures too far and attempted to take on the government directly. Solidarity felt this tendency towards "deconstruction" would lead to a revolution, which they wanted to avoid. Therefore, the union leaders had to fire the semioticians...
Traditionally, says Blonsky, semiotics has done little about such reverses of its theory, tending to try only to "deconstruct" each ads to show why they are attractive. Books like Gadvich's Gender Advertising have picked apart such ads to show what kinds of needs the ads are addressing. For example, ads in which women are playfully sprayed at with hoses, or hit with pillows, have, according to Godvich, emphasized a cultural tendency to want to see women babied. However, new kinds of advertisements have shifted away from cultural tendencies like these to take on newer, more diverse ones...