Word: cherished
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...academic community, Brustein's approach to literature verges on insurrection. Professors tend to cherish fidelity to a text and tradition in its interpretation. Brustein seeks to make every play speak to the present, and does not revere even Shakespeare's words as sacred. Often stimulating and insightful, his productions of masterworks are novelties that presume the audience knows the standards from which he departs...
...Beanpot and it was something I had always dreamed about. As soon as I scored that goal I was tackled by my teammates. By the time I got up. I realized there were 15,000 people there all screaming for me. That moment is something I'll always cherish and remember...
...Caribbean democracies would be better equipped to face their woes if they could learn to pull in tandem. But unique forces seem to work against that possibility. After three centuries of slavery and colonialism, independence has inspired a heady and often heedless individualism. Says Journalist Ulric Mentus: "People cherish their freedom. They think of dancing in the streets, throwing out their leaders and not going to work if they don't feel like it as all part of the same democracy. They will not vote for any government they cannot tell to go to hell...
About Casablanca there clings a quality of lovely, urgent innocence. Those who cherish the movie may be nostalgic for moral clarity, for a war in which good and evil were obvious and choices tenable. They may be nostalgic for a long-lost connection between the private conscience and the public world. Casablanca was released three years before the real moment of the fall of the modern world: 1945. That year, the side of good dropped nuclear bombs on cities full of civilians, and the world discovered Auschwitz. We have not yet developed the myths with which to explain such matters...
...decade when the U.S. was holding down arms spending. He also argued that it was perfectly moral for the U.S. to make certain that "our deterrent forces remain sufficiently strong and credible to assure effective deterrence." The goal, he said, is "to prevent war and preserve the values we cherish." As for the bishops' stance on the MX, the Administration argues that their opposition to the development of more sophisticated weapons would reduce the prospects of limiting a nuclear...