Word: confronting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aspect of Rockwell's writing is his unwillingness to go out on a limb, to; make an unqualified statement, to be controversial. Times readers are used to his overly reasonable approach to subject where intellectualizing is completely inappropriate. Only rarely does Rockwell take the bull by the horns and confront the reader with a controversial statement. One case in which Rockwell does reach for eloquence is in his essay or. Latin musician Eddie Palmieri, one of his finest chapters. He writes...
...weeks later Mondale got his biggest boost: Ted Kennedy telephoned to say that he was abandoning the race. Mondale's confidence soared. He began to confront political operators directly, warning them that there was no more room to stall, challenging them in a way he had never done before. When some held out, the suddenly combative Mondale took it personally and told them...
...best chance to live. But most do not make it. They spend their brief existence in a sterile world, devoid of any real warmth or affection, a world filled with pain and discomfort. In my own view, the odds just were not worth it. I found it impossible to confront the vision of my child dying alone in a room full of machines-never having known what it is to be loved...
...developing nuclear weapons, Roosevelt moved in secret, sidestepping doubters. (His own naval aide, Admiral William Leahy, said F.D.R.'s project was "the biggest fool thing we've ever done. The atomic bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert on explosions.") Reagan must confront arms control experts and political opponents in public...
...witnesses to the fact that this change is not wholly healthy. We have no great numbers and no great influence. We cannot, therefore, demand that our traditions be given attention. Most of our theologians have accommodated themselves to Western thinking, fearing the very alienation which we traditionalists confront. As a result, one of the oldest and most venerable religious traditions is being distorted or ignored in contemporary scholarship. That the scholarly community allows this is an indictment of that community. And its failing, as always, shows up on the street! The Rev. Hieromouk Auxenties