Word: humanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effort to calm the populace, Namphy pledged to install a new President by the constitutionally mandated deadline of Feb. 7. The junta gave the same eight groups that selected the last electoral council 72 hours to name a new body to oversee balloting procedures. But after Catholic bishops and human-rights groups refused to participate, the junta announced plans to set up its own council. Given the government's anger that Duvalierists were banned from running this time, many Haitians expect the junta to finesse the rules so that they can stand in the next go-round. It is also...
...occupies the minds of animals. Tejima, a Japanese artist, offers one surmise in Fox's Dream (Philomel; $13.95). The furry protagonist is pictured in stark, evocative woodcuts as he prowls through wintry forests. His dream reveals that warm-blooded creatures differ more in style than substance. Like any sensible human, the quick brown fox longs for sunshine, warm days and someone to play with...
Among Brokaw's closing human-interest questions was "Do you go home in the evening and discuss with ((wife Raisa)) national policies, political difficulties and so on in this country?" "We discuss everything." "Including Soviet affairs at the highest level?" "I think I have answered your question in toto." That was the only exchange that was truncated when the interview was broadcast to the Soviet people...
...because it is the light of Nature -- the mother of all that is valuable in poetry, painting or anything else where an appeal to the soul is required." Natural vision, the sense of English terrain, exalted hopes of freedom, fear of the apocalyptic violence that lurked in human nature and, above all, a sense of rebirth in all departments of life -- it is not easy to reimagine the ferment of those times. Throughout Europe, the 1790s were a hinge on which the very idea of culture as a force in human affairs turned. A new principle entered art and poetry...
...fallen dramatically. Moreover, there are no signs of the much feared "breakout" of AIDS into the heterosexual population. Still, infection among IV drug users has skyrocketed. "It's clear that we are dealing not with just one epidemic but a series of subepidemics," declared U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Otis Bowen...