Word: confrontive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gore and other Democrats say Bush should secure deep cuts in strategic nuclear weapons and embark on an "unprecedented international effort to confront the global ecological crisis...
...traditional means of overcoming racism and sexism has been through confrontation, a challenge to the morality of the accused. The effect was to force those accused of sexism or racism to confront their own attitudes, to determine for themselves whether they were in fact being offensive...
This was the meaning of Dr. King--to turn a nation in on itself, to confront its own conscience. As one writer has put it, Dr. King was successful because when Southerners "smote him--as they inevtiably must--they hurt them selves...In the end, it was the power of their own idealized vision of themselves as Christians, transcended into Blackness, personified in King and him, a seemingly loving and non-violent host, that shook them to the roots of self." But we are rarely shaken to such depths today...
...purpose of making the change was twofold. On the one hand to remove archaicism from the paper, and on the other to confront people with the fact that language does carry biases, and that these biases matter. Its impact was intended to influence those who work on the paper as much as those who read it. But the impact was negated...
WORLD: Israel's soldiers confront a moral dilemma...