Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...avoid detection by turning off his lights and flying at an altitude of about 300 ft. Explained the happy but exhausted Poles after a safe landing near the city of Malmo: "We are all Solidarity members. That is why we fled." Most others had no choice but to express their defiance quietly at home...
...wider scope of beleagured American school systems. Harvard's Core vision is perhaps the one whose logical and philosophical underpinnings are the least obvious to observers. Though the national press did, as Keller notes, focus massive attention on the event as an educational revolution, academics across the country still express confusion as to what exactly the fuss was about Many thought the proposed array of 90 courses as a "core" of basic knowledge was a bit idiosyncratic. Others went further and called it ludicrous. The vast majority of outside observers failed to see the distinction between the Core "revolution...
Jewett added, "I think it's perfectly appropriate for the students to express their feelings in that way; it's the kind of information we probably should have...
...artistic reasons, and politics has no place in either their delivery or acceptance. But repeated protests at Redgrave's performances (mostly by pro-Israeli Jewish organizations) and the Boston Symphony Orchestra's cancellation last spring of a concert she was scheduled to narrate raise questions about her right to express herself as an artist and the relation of that right to her political activism...
Despite the lackluster record of embargoes, Renwick argues that they have a useful, if mainly symbolic, purpose. They are often the only way, short of war, for one nation to express its outrage at the conduct of another. Concludes Renwick: "To abandon altogether the idea of recourse to sanctions in response to acts of aggression or other flagrant violations of international law would be to reduce the choice of response to one between military action and acquiescence-an unattractive choice at the best of times and particularly so in a nuclear age." That said, Renwick cautions against any great expectations...