Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lerner and West, as well as the visiting congressional representatives, do not permit dissent from the liberal agenda. In particular, Lerner attempts to hold all Jews hostage to it. But growth comes from freedom in learning, not the didactic orthodoxy Lerner and West prescribed. Although they attempt to downplay their solution as final, they hold themselves as moral examplars for the rest of society. By for saking the American ethic of democracy and capitalism, the two have accomplished little in the way of solving any racial controversies in this country...
...first love. Evie and Randy perform all the time-honored rituals of young lovers; they try out each other's music, swap reading lists, and talk about their families. Beneath that, one suspects that little is there. But they persist in creating their own lovers' world, despite the dissent surrounding them. The film doesn't work too hard to escape cliches of high school life and speaks most directly to kids who are still in high school. But "Two Girls" is not about high school or lesbianism, it's about love--with a dash of humor...
...There is no internal dissent," Galluccio said."This is an outsider creating a rift...
...dollar, has plunged to 1,500 against the dollar. Crime is rampant in the capital, which has also experienced a rash of car-bomb attacks by dissidents and possibly Iranian agents. There is widespread grumbling in Saddam's 350,000-man army and even dissent within the alite Republican Guard. "He's feeling the greatest pressure he's felt since the Gulf War," says a senior U.S. official monitoring the country...
Michael Waltzer, editor of Dissent, agreed with Peretz. "Dissent is not responsible for what is going on in Washington; there is some moral satisfaction in that, but also a sense of defeat...