Word: confronting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...about it), be rational (but let the emotions flow). Female stereotypes are not so easily remodeled. It makes no real sense to urge that women be submissive (but not too submissive), flowerlike (but not wait to be picked), devoted nest builders (but go forth and confront the world...
Ultimately, this is the great contradiction: As American capitalism's genuine need for foreign resources grows, the cost of containing revolutions abroad multiplies. Not only must a complex network of relations with other industrial powers (including the USSR) be maintained, but the United States must confront its ultimate inability to offer any program of social reform as adequate as socialism to meet the desperate material and social needs of Third World nations...
...forced the morally committed artists of Latin America to take a political stand. In no other part of the world is such imaginative literature being produced in response to such crucial problems. Writers such as Llosa and Marquez recognize that economic and cultural subjugation go hand in hand. They confront issues of culture imperialism because they know that dissension in popular art from the encroachment of a foreign culture is as necessary as political opposition to more overt acts of foreign domination...
...only the second time in U.S. history, the American people seriously confront the possibility of the impeachment or forced resignation of a President. It is a painful, lacerating process-as agonizing for them as it may ultimately be for the stricken President. Though a few are gleeful about the possible removal of an old enemy, most face the prospect with considerable foreboding, a profound sense of loss for themselves, their country, their history. A majority still do not favor impeachment, though it is openly discussed everywhere. But many hope that Richard Nixon, in a final presidential act, will resign...
Declaring November 22 a day of "national rededication to the struggle against racism in the universities, in the White House and in [students'] homes," the organizers urged students nationwide to confront their parents on the issue of racism by boycotting the dinner table...