Word: facet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grasping for a definitive spiritual facet to their cultural heritage, they latched onto Islam, the first major world religion to incorporate a large portion of the African continent. The Nation of Islam began preaching Islam as both the ancestral religion of the African and the ideology which would liberate Blacks from their oppressed condition...
...held the position that any given Black intellectual can seize one's ethnic relatedness or leave it alone. At the same time there has always been as well as an expectation that a sizable segment of the Black intelligentsia in any given period would in fact pick-up some facet of one's ethnic relatedness. Which is to say, for example, that some-but-not-all Black lawyers would do this (e.g. the Harvard-trained William Hastie and Charles Houston, the Howard University-trained Thurgood Marshall, the Yale-trained Marian Edelman); that some Black humanities scholars would do this...
...while the discussion focuses upon relations between African and Jewish-Americans, Ogletree said he hopes that the discussion will include an audience which will represent "every facet of America and beyond...
Ross Perot likes to punctuate his crisp prescriptions for complex problems by eyeballing the TV camera sternly and intoning, "It's that simple." Yet little about Perot himself matches that terse description. As his bizarre charges of Republican dirty tricks detonated across the political landscape last week, the dominant facet of Perot's makeup became increasingly clear: he is an incurable conspiracy monger who espies plotters in every thicket and easily persuades himself that some of his wildest suspicions are true...
...recent court case in Hartford, Conn. has brought this issue into the news, revealing yet another facet of America's painful obsession with the definition of human life. Many advocates for children's welfare feel that a mother who would take drugs or act in other irresponsible ways during pregnancy has shown herself to be an unfit parent. Yet it is evident that prosecuting such women for child abuse would effectually decide the abortion question in favor of the "rights of the unborn," and possibly invade the woman's privacy as well...