Word: confrontive
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...table with leather straps and electroshock. All of this matches perfectly the external world through which Winston and Julia stumble: it looks like a vast, bombed- out housing development. Cameron thus carefully upsets our common visual assumptions about things to come. With antiseptic cliches banished, we are forced to confront a basic truth: the will to tyrannize is utterly independent of technology. It is present in every time, place and setting. And it will abide...
...proven himself as an adept conciliator, no small accomplishment compared to the man he replaced, Nathan M. Pusey '28, who had summoned the police to evict the demonstrators who had taken over University Hall. One of Bok's most celebrated moments was when, as dean, he showed up to confront student occupants of Langdell Hall armed only with coffee and doughnuts...
SEVEN WHO SUCCEEDED FROM A SULLEN SLUM TO THE FRONTIERS OF TECHNOLOGY, THESE NEW PIONEERS TYPIFY A SPIRIT IN THE BEST AMERICAN TRADITION: INVENTIVE, . BOLD, RESOLUTE, EAGER TO OVERCOME THE CHALLENGES THAT CONFRONT THEM. SOME HAVE BECOME WEALTHY; OTHERS FIND SATISFACTION IN A MISSION ACCOMPLISHED...
...field where his competence had gone virtually unquestioned. After the French withdrew 3,000 paratroopers from Chad between last September and November, Mitterrand discovered that, contrary to the agreement with Gaddafi, a substantial number of Libyan troops remained. A chagrined President was forced to fly to Crete to confront Gaddafi, a move that was denounced by former Premier Maurice Couve de Murville as "the greatest humiliation that France has suffered for a long time." Mitterrand has been hurt as well by public concern over the still simmering separatist revolt in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia...
Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey was a star child of the '60s. It yoked trail-blazing technical wizardry to intergalactic mysticism, propelling man into space and through the time barrier to confront his own past and a new race's future. The film was about quests, not answers, and at its conclusion an air of benign befuddlement lingered over its hipper audiences like a corona of reefer smoke. Now, in the quick-solution '80s, comes 2010, a sequel whose sole purpose is to explain the ending of its predecessor. Working from Arthur C. Clarke...