Word: givens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of these suggestions have been made before, in different guises, although few have been carried out. Politically, they are problematic because they tend remove benefits from people who do not want to relinquish them. Given this, becoming more like us will not be so easy...
...then he assumed we were going to the 350th together. (The 350th was a formal given by the University to celebrate its 350th year of academic endeavor.) That wasn't the impression I got, but when he called and dropped by every day for the next few days, I became willing to go-after all it was quite an event, and he seemed nice enough...
...Korsakoffian, moreover, has trouble functioning. He is always getting things wrong. As modern industrial culture becomes more visual, its images more transient, it has a hard time learning. It too is constantly surprised. Take the shock with which news of the Chinese crackdown on the democracy movement was received. Given Communism's 70-year history, marked by repeated reigns of repressive terror, only a forgetting culture could have been so taken by surprise. The week after the Tiananmen massacre, Hungary, which has a harder time forgetting, staged a moving reburial of the men executed for leading the 1956 rebellion...
...electronic age, however, suffer differently. Forgetting is all we do. We so feel ourselves forgetting that we contrive monuments of stone -- to vets, to cops, to Kahlil Gibran, to whomever -- to anchor ourselves in time. That which is written in stone endures, we figure. If the Ten Commandments were given today, they would be flashed on the great Diamond Vision screen at Yankee Stadium, and by sunup not a soul would remember...
...behind all of this is the stellar direction of Weir. He may not have built St. Andrew's, taught Williams how to act, written the Beethoven symphony or given universal appeal to the age-old theme, but Weir's dexterity in pulling all of those elements together in Dead Poet's Society must be commended...