Word: forcefullness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Giamatti's ideas are welded together by his forceful yet delicate style. Nearly every paragraph is quotable. Though his highly-publicized condemnation of the Moral Majority does not appear in this book (it doubtless will in his next), and though he is more concerned with the civic than the social...
And he sincerely believes, as he says in his preface, "that education in America is a powerful force for good and is the way to arrive at a forceful public good." But while he often notes the tension between the public and the private, between the common good and the...
Nguyen Phuong Thuy is not alone. According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), women on 81 % of the boats reaching Thailand in the first nine months of 1981 were raped, most of them many times over. A total of 552 were attacked in front...
Picking its way through this snarl of conflicting interests would be a formidable task even for an American Administration that had evolved a forceful, consistent foreign policy. The Reagan Administration is far from that position of strength. In the Middle East, one key aim is to reassure the Saudis of...
To avoid being accused of meddling in Greece's internal politics, the U.S. has remained studiously neutral. But NATO'S commanders are not so circumspect. Says an officer assigned to the Southern Command: "If Papandreou does what he's said he's going to do, it...