Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Babbit will be a crucial figure in waking America up from the years of wayward leadership. He will say things that need to be said--and I don't think that will cost him an election in the future. But for the troubles confronting America, we will need a new brand of idealism--a purpose able to unite a country never before so divided along issues of race and class. Such a solution would be so tied into today's problems that it would leave Mr. Smith, crumpled hat held off to his side, scratching his head in amazement...
...U.S.S.R. until 1987, just after Tarkovsky died in exile. Alexander Askoldov's The Commissar, filmed in 1967, was accused of "Zionist tendencies" and suppressed for 20 years; Askoldov has yet to make another movie. Erakli Kvirikadze made his satire of Stalinism, The Swimmer, in 1981, but a crucial scene was deleted until 1987. The director stashed the offending footage in his refrigerator and waited...
...support along the potentially troublesome southern Asia flank. (In Azerbaidzhan, a few Muslims have been waving photos of the Ayatullah Khomeini or sprouting Iranian-style beards. However, there is sparse evidence of religious fanaticism, either inspired by neighboring Iran and Afghanistan or encouraged by the Soviets' own tolerance.) The crucial factor is awareness inside the Kremlin that economic and cultural stagnation stems largely from the Communists' dogged policy of repressing religion and other forms of independent thought. Islam, like the country's other religions, is a major beneficiary of "new thinking...
...school construction and teaching materials. But the biggest need, he feels, is for free thinking. Says Yagodin: "The school badly wants more democracy." In the end, only a generation of new teachers, trained in the era of glasnost, may be able to carry out the sweeping school reform so crucial to changing Soviet society...
Jennifer A. Dunne '89, founder of the coalition, said she started the organization because it is crucial for students to show their support for abortion rights because the Supreme Court is about to review a decision in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services that could overturn Roe v. Wade. That case legalized abortion...