Word: belief
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...gross ineptitude of this film. As he previously demonstrated with Secretary, the director, Steven Shainberg, has a thoroughly nasty desire to degrade and humiliate female characters. This is combined with a truly tasteless eye for settings and d?cor, a staggering ignorance of nuance in performance and an apparent belief that the business of art is to repel rather than to seduce. Or rather to repel and then tack on a little spurious uplift as he finally does here. Another way of putting that is that he is precisely the opposite of Diane Arbus, hopelessly enthralled and self-endangered...
Patrick’s commitment to the poor, the disadvantaged, and minority groups comes from his belief that they should have the same opportunities that he enjoyed as a young man. He grew up poor on the south side of Chicago and, through intelligence and determination, won a scholarship to Milton Academy before attending Harvard. Since graduation from Harvard Law School, he has served the country in a presidential administration and fought for social justice across the country–from Coca-Cola’s boardroom to the halls of America’s courthouses. One of the great...
...That's what happened to the previous bland blandishment of "Merry Christmas." It was no more a declaration of religious belief than saying, "God bless you," when you heard a sneeze. (Remind me: is that still allowed?) Yet in the nagging belief that an invocation of the holiday might upset some people, usually referred to as "our Jewish friends," the phrase morphed into "Happy holiday" or "Happy holidays" - those days presumably being Hanukkah, Christmas and New Year's Day. Problem solved, with no offense...
...What the "Happy Holidays" crowd didn't realize was that not saying "Merry Christmas" was as annoying to traditionalists as saying it was to non-Christians. The debate had little to do with belief; it was about people's fond, perhaps fanciful, memories of Christmases past...
...fact, contrary to popular belief, most student activists are realists. We would prefer if we didn’t have to fight it out and devote countless hours each week to organizing, educating, and agitating. But we realize that when the poor, the powerless, and their supporters are pitted against a $29.2 billion corporation, they won’t win by getting down on their hands and knees and begging. It takes a whole lot more...