Word: enlightenedness
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HRE's attempt to foster fledgling businessesmay seem like an improbable show of selflessness,but officials prefer to call it "enlightened selfinterest."
"Democracy is rooted in an enlightened citizenry," Robinson said.
On its face, that seems fine. If we must have lobbyists, they might as well represent regular people, not just oil barons. The trouble is that regular people, like oil barons, are usually asking for money, whether in the form of crop subsidies for farmers, tax breaks for shopkeepers, Medicare...
Much rhetoric has been let loose by the right alleging that minorities are being admitted as symbols, not students. It would be troubling and deeply ironic if the supposedly liberal and enlightened administration treated these students as symbols as well and weren't dedicated to helping these students do well...
Worse, there wasn't the protein in France to feed his imagination. It only existed in Rome: the presence of the recent masters from whom he learned so ! much, like Caravaggio and Annibale Carracci, and the dead ones to whom he owed even more, like Titian and Raphael; the enlightened...