Word: ares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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It isn't just that the shift of winds in Eastern Europe is so incredibly rapid, but so disconcertingly nebulous. The changes in Poland and Hungary are not like an election campaign, which has a definite conclusion, or an earthquake, whose scale can be precisely measured. Where we will end...
Now, the face of Eastern Europe is irreversibly altered, and damn it, I missed my chance to see the way it was. When my children are being tenured at Hungarian universities, I want to be able to say, "Well, when I was there in '86..."
NERUOSIS, elation, apprehention, fear, remorse--I have gone through the whole slate of emotional distress. But the one that keeps haunting me, that flashes in my mind each morning when I read the newspaper, is alienation. Here in Boston, studying in school and watching from afar, I feel left out...
I'm jealous that I can't afford to go there. I'm jealous that I don't belong there. I'm jealous that foreigners of my generation are helping to fundamentally alter their societies when I can scarcely get my peers to vote. I'm jealous that a revolution...
These were some of the most powerful motivations behind the creation of the state of Israel, and we are not "Zealots" if we admit it. The fact is that Israel's existence is important for more than ideological reasons. Its fall would involve more than a change in sovereignty, as...