Word: enriching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nieman Foundation gives fellowships to accomplished journalists in order to allow recipients to "enrich themselves and have space to go back to their jobs better centered," according to Jae V. Roosevelt, spokesperson for the Nieman Foundation...
...deterred by false choices. The choice is not between free speech and the marketplace on the one hand, and governmental censorship and bureaucracy on the other. The choice is to serve the needs of children and use the opportunities presented by the superhighway in the digital age to enrich their lives. If we turn away from that choice, the consequences of our inaction will be even greater educational neglect, more craven and deceptive consumerism and inappropriate levels of sex and violence-a wasteland vaster than anyone can imagine, or would care to. Let us do for our children today what...
Just as the splitting of the atom can immensely enrich humanity in a thousand and one ways and at the same time, can also threaten it with destruction, so television can have both good and evil consequences. Quickly, suggestively and to an unprecedented degree, it can disseminate the spirit of understanding, humanity, human solidarity and spirituality, or it can stupefy whole nations and continents. And just as our use of atomic energy depends solely on our sense of responsibility, so the proper use of television's power to enter practically every household and every human mind depends on our sense...
...global civilization thatenvelopes the modern world and the consciousnessof humanity, as we all know, has a dual nature,bringing into question at every step of the waythe very values it is based upon or which itpropagates. The thousands of marvelousachievements of this civilization that work for usso well and enrich us can equally impoverish,diminish and destroy our lives, and frequently do.Instead of serving people, many of these creationsenslave them. Instead of helping people to developtheir identities, they take them away. Almostevery invention or discovery--from the splittingof the atom and the discovery of DNA to televisionand the computer...
...finest professional musicians in the world. As a music educator, I look to these exemplary performing ensembles as a model both aesthetic and professional for my students. The days are long past when the bands played only John Philip Sousa marches as troops passed by. Today's service bands enrich and eduate thousands upon thousands of listeners in every conceivable venue with a diverse repertoire. The arts are critical to the lives of all of us. Your thoughtless article does little to shed an informed light on the subject...