Word: combated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...another's throats, or waving knives at one another's private parts, admirably fuse the dimensions of the intimate and the world-historical. Journalists and essayists have to make a living; men and women leading peaceful, productive lives with one another have to be dragged somehow into the combat. Accordingly: "You hear what she said about you? . . . You hear what he just did? Ain't he awful? Damn, she's awful! Let's you and her fight...
...higher frequencies. Men feel insulted. Women detect fresh assaults. The men-are-awful period has been going on for a while. There are signs now that the oh-yeah-well-women-are-pretty-disgusting- too stage is upon us. For men and women, this is mostly a lose-lose combat. But it is entertaining for the crowds in the Colosseum...
Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72 linked the Haitians' struggles for equality in Cambridge to their efforts to combat political oppression in Haiti...
Those who embrace Lorena Bobbitt as a heroine are doing a disservice to efforts to combat violence against women. It is possible to recognize her as a victim of marital abuse without condoning her actions. What needs to be understood from this tragedy is the fact that many women who are in abusive relationships often do not realize the steps they can legally take to free themselves from their desperate situations...
Central to West's assessment of American Blackness, as he presented it in the interview and both in the interview and in Keeping Faith, is the appreciation and inclusion of Africa in an American--or "New World"--context. Such an awareness, he claims, is essential to combat existing misconceptions of Africa and must be a part of the "Eveready life of ordinary people in the Black community around this country." West also insists that the importance of all forms of Africanist expression must be recognized, including its more superficial and commodified manifestations. As individuals living in a market culture...