Word: friendship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three Greek letters stand for friendship, morality and literature, or learning...
...arguing that our reasons for disliking people are always illegitimate. Few of us would choose to block with Saddam Hussein, regardless of how well we got to know him our first year. I'm also not arguing that living with a person for a year will guarantee friendship--some people are just difficult to live with, and that's that. But most of the time, our judgements of people are based on little more than a lack of patience...
KINSHASA, Congo: Madeleine Albright's gentle prodding of Congo president Laurent Kabila Friday in Kinshasa was a wish list of peacetime problems: Human rights. Political freedoms. War crimes investigations. Show progress, and the U.S. would be happy to extend its hand--and its wallet--in friendship...
...early '50s was essentially abstract, though with strong overtones of landscape space and color. A considerable influence of Willem de Kooning bore on it. De Kooning, Diebenkorn felt, "had it all, could outpaint anybody, at least until the mid-'60s, when he began to lose it." But Diebenkorn's friendship with the Bay Area painter David Park, who bravely refused to accept the reigning dictum in the American avant-garde that radicalism had to mean abstraction, pointed him still closer toward the figurative...
...across the land, the people had jobs, and worked hard at them, and fed their children, whose faces were all alight and still ruddy from their day at play. And the politicians saw this, and watched the deficit shrinking, and they smiled too, and proffered friendship to each other...