Word: confronted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Knowlton said that he sees the center taking shape as a bridge between the public and private sectors. "Government alone cannot solve the fundamental problems that confront our country and we need the private sector for advice and research...
That basic serenity, though muddled in Wasp, retains for this latest book its strongest quality to confront starlight on the larger questions of morality and the universe. The most interesting dilemma posed and indeed and the only one carried through consistently, is the crisis of faith among the cathedral's staff in the face of terror and bereavement. At a party, someone brings up "a tidbit from seminary training. "a quotation from George Orwell...
...again makes heads turn But like the other subplots that spring up every five minutes, their relationship is almost irrelevant to the film's most important point the struggle by Hamilton and Kwan to work out for themselves how to deal with the frighteningly immense human problems they must confront every...
...freedom of assembly is being respected. They also say they are drafting a law that will guarantee a role for opposition political parties, in theory at least. Such progress, however, is likely to be limited as long as the Sandinistas can claim that extraordinary domestic measures are needed to confront foreign threats. Through their protests and actions last week, the Sandinistas seemed to give notice that they still consider government by emergency to be the order...
Because Gandhi lives in the movie as a force or principle rather than a person, he lives only in his opposition to those antithetical forces which confront him--the injustice, degradation and blunt evil of colonialism and racism. Since these afflict millions, first in South Africa, where Gandhi wages his nonviolent war against the racism of Jan Smuts's regime, and then in India, Gandhi and his battle necessarily take place on the national and international stage. And here the movie wins its audience even if it loses much of its humanity...