Word: deepenings
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Keenan's kit includes paradox and irony. "In the most inhuman of circumstances men grow and deepen in humanity," he writes. "In the face of death but not because of it, they explode with passionate life, conquering despair with insane humour." For the better part of his lost 4 1/2 years, Keenan's straight man was the British television journalist John McCarthy...
...discover as objectively as possible what people want for themselves . . . It is also to provide the public with alternative visions of what is desirable and possible, to stimulate deliberation about them, provoke a reexamination of premises and values, and thus to broaden the range of potential responses and deepen society's understanding of itself." Or, as Franklin Roosevelt once said, "All our great Presidents were leaders of thought at times when certain historic ideas in the life of the nation had to be clarified." As an admirer of both Reich and Roosevelt, Clinton views their analyses as crucial...
During the week of riots following the destruction of a 16th century mosque at Ayodhya, Indian police arrested nearly 6,000 Hindus and Muslims in a nationwide crackdown. Public order has been restored, but the country's political crisis continues to deepen. Within minutes of reconvening, Parliament erupted in chaos as legislators locked horns over Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao's dismissal of three state governments ruled by the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party. Rao's move may backfire if citizens demonstrate a preference for the B.J.P. leaders they elected...
...their own considerable influence with the newly independent states to protect the rights of the Russian minorities there. Otherwise, Russia may take matters into its own heavy hands. If so, the world would surely suspend whatever help it is giving to any government in Moscow, which would only deepen the crisis in Russia and accelerate the vicious cycle of economic distress and political extremism...
...newly sharpened form, the embargo remains a blunt instrument. So far, it has done nothing to stop the war still blazing in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The popularity of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic has sunk, but he sits as firmly as ever in the saddle. What the sanctions have done is deepen the state of economic extremis for most people in Serbia and Montenegro. By the end of the year, estimates Austrian trade official Karl Syrovatka, 550,000 working people will be carrying the burden of 750,000 unemployed, 1.4 million on ostensibly temporary layoffs and 1.1 million pensioners. Between September...