Word: confrontive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...open forums, students could hear representatives of the CIA and other firms make a pitch for the employment opportunities their companies offered. If they wanted, the students could also confront the representatives with grievances and try to convince them to change the companies' policies...
Although he does not want to, he--and the film--must eventually piece together the memories, clues, and chance meetings to confront the question, "Was there a reason?" Was there a reason that the Steenwijks were singled out for destruction, or a reason that Anton alone survived? These questions imply the larger question of the meaning and legacy of the war itself for Europeans, who are still living through its aftermath. The film deserves praise for asking this question and for offering no easy answer, despite the film's cathartic ending...
...turned their eye to these new problems.The image of the peasant dominated many canvassesof the period; as Lecturer in History andLiterature Cathy Frierson has pointed out, it wasthe objective of many realist painters to"penetrate and master the peasant soul." IvanKramskoi's portrait, "Mina Moiseev" is the firstwork to confront visitors to the exhibit, and itgives clear insight into the Itinerant painter'sdetermination to study the psychological behaviorof the peasant. Using a restricted palette,Kramskoi does not idealize his subject, and therealism captures a sense of the wisdom, kindnessand ruggedness in the subject...
...Crimson: If you wanted to confront the vice-consul, why didn't you take advantage of the question and answer period which was scheduled to occur after the speech, but which your actions prevented...
...Crimson: Did you really expect that the Harvard police would allow the vice-consul to leave by the front door and confront a hostile group of protesters? Did you let the police suppose know that the blockaders were there only for symbolic purposes and not actually to blockade Kent-Brown...