Word: freedom
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...Modern to Houston's Museum of Fine Arts.* His shows are thronged: 247,800 people went to a month-long Wyeth show in Buffalo last year. Last summer, when President Kennedy picked a painter to be among the first winners of the Medal of Freedom-the U.S.'s highest civilian honor-it was quite inevitable that the choice would be Wyeth. A fortnight ago, President Johnson presented it to him with a citation declaring that "he has in the great humanist tradition illuminated and clarified the verities" of life...
...1990s, the PC started to become a part of most American homes, and businesses. It was remarkably useful and it was a source of endless amusement and another kind of freedom, the freedom to communicate 24/7. In addition, the PC was a relatively safe way to occupy the under-aged. Video game sales ignited on the PC before the game console was commonplace...
Three days after the murder, the Sunday Leader published an editorial written as if by Wickrematunge's spirit: "I hope my assassination will be seen not as a defeat of freedom but an inspiration for those who survive to step up their efforts." His mourners took up that call to action and turned his funeral procession into a mass protest through the streets of Colombo. The pen is powerful, but sometimes it isn't enough...
...Richard Nixon’s “Bring us together again”—to the self-congratulatory—James Madison’s “nobility of the American people” or W’s “Celebrating Freedom, Honoring Service.” Obama’s theme, “Renewing America’s Promise,” hints at a different type of inauguration, one looking towards the future with one foot firmly planted in the past. To prepare for the millions who will descend on Washington...
Helen Vendler, Porter University Professor: “I’ve never believed in (or made) resolutions, being too much in favor of day-by-day freedom. ‘The river glideth at its own sweet will’ (Wordsworth).” Daniel T. Gilbert, Harvard College Professor of Psychology: “I resolved to make only one resolution. And I also resolved to lose 5 pounds.” N. Gregory Mankiw, Beren Professor of Economics: “I resolve to stop responding to queries from The Crimson. (Oops...already broken...