Word: basic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enlightened Chinese people have spared no efforts in learning from Western countries advanced science and cultural achievements in combination with China's realities and pushing for China's social reforms and development. Today, the Chinese people who are struggling to achieve modernization have made the opening-up a basic state policy and conducted extensive exchanges and cooperation with the rest of the world, thus creating a brand-new situation in its opening-up endeavor in the Chinese history...
...government through cultural relativism is, ultimately, patronizing and insulting to Chinese culture, not to mention a denial of the true source of China's human rights abuses. Through this medium, which Jiang and his cohorts are so happy to play upon, China is exoticized and thus exempted from the basic norms of human interaction. It is not Chinese culture, but rather the self-serving raison d'etre of the communist elite that causes the intense and brutal political repression...
...Western ideas of democracy and human rights must take a back seat to basic needs, like food and shelter...
Kissel's own Reflections of Us, introduced as "short, but says what I want to say," was indeed just that, a brief, meditative piece dominated by a single, poignant melody. Predominantly homophonic, registral spacing and changes in tempo demarcated the basic two-part form. Though perhaps a bit too short and lacking development, the B-1work succeeded in conveying a strong sentiment, proving again the expressive capacity of the instrument...
...Christians on the other, has caused a lot of casualties. Activists with noble intentions have had our compassion and openness tested by this struggle. But the recent panel discussion sponsored by Harvard Law School's Society for Law, Life and Religion made me take stock of some of my basic opinions--while politically and morally I still believe gays and lesbians are right, in our immediate judgments we may have been wrong...