Word: disturbance
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There is a second statement of Professor Bell's that should disturb people, for it rejects the concept of human equality. Professor Bell stated that because of his gender, he was unable to understand fully the Black female students whom he teaches and who come to him for guidance. Only a Black woman, in Professor Bell's view, can adequately serve as a teacher and role model for women of color...
...recommendation should heavily influence a decision in June by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service whether to formally declare the owl an endangered species. The designation would make it a federal crime to disturb the bird's habitat -- the woodlands that have succumbed to chain saws at the rate of 55,000 acres a year. Only about one-tenth of the original forests in the continental U.S. remain undisturbed...
...assume that there is no threat is to assume, first, that the Soviet threat is completely dead, that even a disintegrating Soviet empire, home to 25,000 nuclear warheads, will not disturb the peace. History does not support the proposition that collapsing empires go quietly...
...love story is supposed to begin when Harry, her former lover, reappears on Catherine's doorstep after twelve years. Harry is back because he has pined for Catherine intermittently, but also because he conveniently works for a Senator who wants to block a shopping mall that would disturb a black cemetery in Catherine's town. Catherine's live-in boyfriend, whom she ejects almost immediately, is a contractor who will profit from paving the parking...
...with a different set of expectations and a little patience, Straightlines is an enjoyably different and sometimes extremely creative performance. The purpose of art, is has been said, is to disturb, not reassure. Tan will not reassure us with convention. This is not a "regular play," and if the playwright leaves us shifting in our seats and glancing at one another, maybe it is we who should readjust...