Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effectiveness stems from her evident fervor and a theatrical willingness to challenge Jews to a fully committed life. Listeners may be told that they are "witnesses to murder" because they are allowing a generation of Jews to "disappear in silence, through apathy, ignorance and assimilation." Jews are not free agents, she tells her audience: "You are links in an eternal chain. You belong to your people...
Then there are some artists whose reputations gratuitously disappear and subsequently rise again, wobbling in and out of historical focus. The outstanding example of these, among the impressionists, was Camille Pissarro...
...report on the Core Curriculum, it is to "have students acquire basic literacy in major forms of intellectual discourse." A sort of shared intellectual discourse, if you will. Gen Ed, which has grown ever more truncated since the Core sprouted, will finally in the fall of 1983, disappear entirely...
...York Review of Books that "Solar energy attracts people with an indifferent commitment to personal hygience and a strong commitment to organic foods," the comment transcended mere economic analysis. Likewise, when, in his memoirs, he laments the loss of financial eminence of his colleagues-- "Harvard professors (now) disappear at night into the distant Boston outskirts, there to do engage in the suburban middle-class struggle with teen-age delinquency and crabgrass"--it explains more than the changed living arrangements of the Harvard faculty...
...Then, after attending Mass on Sunday, Father Roy Bourgeois, 42, a Maryknoll priest, simply vanished. The initial assumption was that he had become yet another victim of the country's endemic political terrorism. "I'm as certain as I can be that he didn't disappear of his own free will," said his superior, Father James Noonan, when he arrived to look into the case...