Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With optional preferential voting, an elector who wants to can express a protest or an opinion through a third-party vote without this fear. If his candidate fails, the second choices expressed on the now excluded candidates' ballots are directed to the survivors...
...that the raid had "only tended to complicate the situation further and heighten tensions." The Saudis, among America's closest friends in the Muslim world, are alarmed at the prospect of reckless U.S. intervention in the Persian Gulf region. But Egypt's Anwar Sadat was quick to express concern for Jimmy Carter. Said the Egyptian leader: "It is hard luck, but it should not dishearten the Americans from taking more action to free the hostages." Jerusalem also sent words of sympathy and encouragement. Said Israeli Premier Menachem Begin: "It could happen to anybody. We have to join...
...story of street hustlers and dudes who, according to Eugene Rivers '83, the movie's real-life protagonist, "express as much or more ingenuity in just surviving" than most Harvard students ever do-but they have no chance, forgotten by society, running "three times as fast" and still falling behind. It is the story of the frustrations faced by Blacks at Yale and of the discouragement of Black students who see themselves forgetting their brothers and sisters on the streets. It is the story of the culture shock caused when upper- and middle-class Blacks confront the differences between themselves...
Through these interviews, we learn of many different types of frustration. Many Black students at Yale express frustration because they feel "alone and alienated" and experience "a conflict between self and society." They must either deny their identity to fit in, "play the Joe-college-fool role," or remain isolated because "people at least on this campus refuse to deal with you," one students says. Rivers, who--in every way--is alien to the largely middle-class Black community on the Yale campus, is also frustrated with the Black students. "People weren't willing to think critically about anything...
BLACK AT YALE is not, however, a condemnation of Black students at Yale, but is instead a serious and balanced study of their role in society. While some people express dismay, others are hopeful. "These are the ones that's going to speak up for us," one Black man says. Others believe that the Black students at Yale will advance and help other Blacks. Rivers is upset, but not bitter; he wants more Blacks to wake up and he hopes they will. A student interviewed at the outset of the movie feels similarly; he has reservations but believes that what...