Word: crux
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Borders should lose their divisive nature for people. This is the crux of the open question for all Europeans, a question concerning human rights and human dignity for everyone, not just for one nation or solely for the West," he said...
...crux of women's existence, the researchers contend, is the sense of relationship, the interconnectedness of people. That notion challenges long- accepted theories of human psychological development. As set out by Freud and his largely male successors, healthy emotional growth is marked by a striving for autonomy. People who deviate from that pattern, as many women do, have often been considered immature, even psychologically ill -- victims, perhaps, of dependent personality disorder. But critics charge that that orthodox psychological dogma is based almost exclusively on studies of men. Ignoring women distorted the picture. The male voice, in effect, became the human...
...Saddam also has weapons of mass destruction. Is not the crux of all this the fear that Saddam is a loose cannon with terrible weapons that must be eliminated...
...great for those individuals but it still fails to address the crux of the problem which is the discriminatory policies themselves," said Bonauto. "It's one crack in the wall, but it's quite a thick wall...
...crux of this work is confused identities and the situations that ensue. Audience members themselves will probably be confused for at least the first 10 minutes of the production. The language of the play is initially disconcerting. It takes a while to get used to the Elizabethan diction, and one may get lost in the opening scene while trying to understand what is being said. But the adjustment to the language comes fairly quickly, and is helped by the lively and very physical nature of the acting...