Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wish now that I had gotten their names. I wish I had screamed at them. They were just as bad as the man who chased me. But I was afraid to confront them. Their attack was more subtle, more dehumanizing, because it left me unable to defend myself...
...that the government planned to lengthen their low-paying tour of duty, abandoned their barracks and took to the streets. For the next two days, mobs of civilian troublemakers and looters, including Muslim fundamentalists and leftist students, joined the rioting policemen. It was the most serious domestic unrest to confront Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak since he took office after Sadat's assassination in 1981. The official toll: at least 36 people killed and 321 injured...
WHEN FRENCH playwright Jean Genet wrote The Balcony he noted that the best way to portray true good in the world was to force his audiences to confront true evil. Fake judges, generals, and bishops parade through a whorehouse, living out their petty hypocrisies and in the process exposing the so-called justice of the establishment as so many lies...
Moral crusaders should never be ashamed of the truth, because the truth will always work in their favor. The fight to rid society of pornography is a noble one, but it will only be won when and if enough Americans are forced to confront their own sexism...
...plays with his words to create a state of intellectual torment in his readers to make them confront his country's predicament. His artistry lies not in an ability to write pleasant fiction, but in his powerful ability to use an inherited form in novel ways. Angelo's book offers no repose to its readers, no chance to lapse into a happy understanding with the text. One can only laugh and skim through the pages, as the narrator does at times, or wrestle with the book...