Word: enlightenedness
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More than half of our electorate chose not to vote this year--a shocking condemnation of our democracy. To bring them back in, symbols must be replaced with substance, and candidates must back their statements with compelling reasons, not ad hominem arguments. It is in this climate that liberal democracy...
Bennett charged that the Stanford decision to alter its Western Culture program was "not a product of enlightened debate, but rather an unfortunate capitulation to a campaign of pressure politics and intimidation."
Bush said the demarcation between East and West is now "a rusting curtain." He said that if elected he would be wary of Soviet intentions, despite what he called more enlightened leadership under Mikhail Gorbachev.
The present government, meanwhile, was wrestling with some rare but pressing decisions. Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita, for example, must choose a name for the next imperial era. All official documents except passports are now dated by the era Showa (Enlightened Peace), which began the day Hirohito became Emperor in 1926...
"I believe that there are many rough beasts now slouching toward Bethlehem to be born and that I have reported the progress of a few of them." Flannery O'Connor's modest self-analysis remains the most penetrating of all. Doomed by | a hereditary disease, lonely, indomitable, sustained by her...