Word: confrontational
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...John Edwards, seem to be moving, and talking, in slow motion. All three spend a fair amount of time telling their personal stories, which are compelling. All three say they are fighting for average folks like their parents. All three voted with the President on Iraq and try to confront that issue straight on. Edwards is best at this: "I know you don't agree with me on Iraq," he told an audience in Indianola, Iowa, which seemed to be entirely composed of peace activists, "but I want to tell you directly, from my own mouth, why I feel...
Through his television show, Mister Rogers taught us both how to confront our fears about issues like death anddivorce, and to use our imaginations. Most of all, Mister Rogers encouraged us to be comfortable with who we are. An ordained Presbyterian minister, Rogers was said by those who knew him personally to be the same person in real life that he was on the air—kind, generous and calm...
...educator, Mister Rogers tried to impart these qualities to his young viewers. It is a testament to his gifts as a teacher that even today, many young adults retain the lessons Mister Rogers taught them in their childhood; our neighborliness, our ability to confront our fears and even the routines we perform each day upon returning home are attributable at least in part to the kind man in the red cardigan who visited with presidents, filmed an episode in communist Russia, won an Emmy Lifetime Achievement award and asked us to be his neighbor...
...complain because I doubt Libeskind. In making its decision on what should replace the twinned frailties of emptiness and memory which confront us in the void where the Twin Towers stood, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) has surely chosen the lesser evil. It is fitting that the garish skeletal frames of the towers that the THINK team proposed have been dismissed. They were a foolish piece of constructivist hyperbole—an ecstatic vertical jungle gym obscuring their funereal base...
...John Edwards, seem to be moving, and talking, in slow motion. All three spend a fair amount of time telling their personal stories, which are compelling. All three say they are fighting for average folks like their parents. All three voted with the President on Iraq and try to confront that issue straight on. Edwards is best at this: "I know you don't agree with me on Iraq," he told an audience in Indianola, Iowa, which seemed to be entirely composed of peace activists, "but I want to tell you directly, from my own mouth, why I feel...