Word: braved
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps you missed it in the crunch of midterms, but the Brave New World arrived a few weeks...
Frightened ethicists often tout Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" as a nightmarish blueprint of where science could lead us. Huxley envisioned a world of factory-produced human beings, engineered and brainwashed to fill society's different needs...
...rated movies, Restic became a special agent. Working mostly alone, he penetrated enemy lines, merged with the masses of Europeans fleeing Hitler's terror, and relayed information back to the Allies. Putting his life on the line several times while dealing with double agents, the brave, hardworking youngster earned the overwhelming respect of his superiors...
...drag on so uselessly, while the action seems to thunder on like machine-gun fire. This slaughters both the characters and the play. In rhythmic but nonsensical spurts, so much anger builds up in these women that they start to chant "BASTARD MEN! BASTARD MEN!" in an eery, Brave New World-like crescendo, and do it more than once. The fact that boys are made of "snaps and snails and puppy dogs' tails" is hissed visciously from the tongues of the characters, dripping with mockery. There just seems to be an eruptive release of anger in these words, with little...
...This was brave talk in a society where descendants of slaves had traditionally been admired for their muscles, not their mind. Du Bois' program for broadening education has been well documented, but Lewis demonstrates the extent to which the Old Man fought to make African Americans heirs to their own intellectual and cultural past...