Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bernardo Sepulveda Amor told TIME in an interview last week, "I do not think the main purpose of U.S. Central American policy is to protect Mexico. The U.S. has a different perspective related to what some people in the Administration regard as a vital strategic and political interest: to assert U.S. hegemony in the region...
...civilian death toll in El Salvador had gone from 160 a month to, say, 143, then the Reagan Administration could assert that the government of El Salvador was making progress toward protecting human rights. But you report that civilian deaths rose from 160 a month to 177 during a half-year period. How can our Government possibly claim that the human rights situation has improved...
...militant leftist coalition COCEI, which has energetically implemented popular civic reforms. The P.R.I, did not take any legal action last spring when the COCEl reinstalled a radical peasant, Leopoldo de Gyves, as mayor of Juchitán. But as the elections approached, the ruling party began to assert its power. Government-run Oaxacan newspapers ran spurious accounts of fizzled COCEI rallies. Seven days before the elections, P.R.I, and COCEI sympathizers clashed violently in Juchitán, leaving two people dead and dozens injured. Accusing De Gyves of having fomented the incident, the state governor simply replaced him with a P.R.I...
...detractors, the basic starch) of salon painting from Ingres to Bouguereau. It was thrust into eclipse by impressionism because it carried an aura of the posed, the stagy, the allegorical, and post-impressionism finished it off. The nude became a casualty of the means painters chose to assert their pictorial honesty: the near religious cult of flatness. The intricate bumps and hollows, bosses and knots and smooth rotundities of the bodily landscape were generalized down to patches. By the start of Pearlstein's career, in the ebb tide of abstract expressionism, the very idea of rendering the posed body...
...which tend to stress technique over insight. This is largely due to the extraordinary respect, bordering on veneration, that the Japanese have for teachers, or sensei; too often students seek to imitate a teacher's style in preference to developing an individual interpretation. The innate Japanese reluctance to assert oneself in public is partly to blame, as is the strong desire to honor the sensei by reproducing their imparted wisdom. But in Western music, which prizes individuality, such cultural conditioning is a hindrance. Notes Kimura: "The principal defect of Japanese performers today is that they don't have...