Word: demand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...funeral oration as Neves was buried on Wednesday in his hometown of Sao Joao del Rei, 140 miles north of Rio de Janeiro, President Sarney said, "His commitments will be our commitments. His dream will be our dream." The new leader is expected to benefit immediately from the public demand that Neves' legacy be fulfilled. Said Federal Deputy Del Bosco Amaral, a member of Neves' Brazilian Democratic Movement Party: "In a strange way, one of Tancredo's greatest achievements only took place after he died. His death left Brazil with only one path: democracy...
...film whole: in 90- second bites on the nightly news, in the lapel-grabbing journalism of 60 Minutes, even in the nature studies that now stud the pbs schedule. So why put nonfiction on the big screen? Because there are stories whose subjects, and filmmakers whose points of view, demand the isolation and intensity of the movie-house experience. One such story is The Times of Harvey Milk, winner of this year's Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. Its plot--all-American guy shoots the mayor of San Francisco and a gay-activist supervisor, then goes to trial pleading that...
...Century Verse, editor David Nichol Smith remarked that "our attitude to the century is still in the process of readjustment ... we must have our personal likes or dislikes of the Elizabethans and Carolines, but from the judgement which has been passed on them as a whole there is no demand for an appeal. No such judgement has yet been given on the poetry of the eighteenth century." As much as Smith anticipated recent historical inquiry, he also anticipated Roger Lorsdale's New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse...
...bases of civil disobedience is taking responsibility for one's actions, so it is unfortunate that the students at the sit-in did not volunteer their names--despite the fact that the University did not formally demand their bursar's cards. Nevertheless, they acted publicly and have said they will come forward to face disciplinary action. There is no doubt the University will hold them responsible for what they did; this is only fair. Yet who, but these same students, makes Harvard University face up to the consequences of its actions...
...laugh at the claim made by the lawyer of one of Goetz's alleged victims: "Give me $5" was a request, not a demand made of Goetz. Yeah, sure. Brian O'Neill Hamden, Conn...