Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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It is in the condition of love, indeed, that the lightness of experience becomes most comic and most acute; Kundera's meditation on the problems of love are very fine. Sabina, looking at Franz's physically powerful frame, grows angry at Franz's refusal to use his strength outwardly in...
To hear those lines spoken from a stage now, 35 years after they were first heard, is to realize how deeply they have insinuated themselves into the collective unconscious of modern America. We quote them without citing their original source, in some cases without knowing what that source is. And...
That meeting, too, led to an impasse. When it seemed that progress had become impossible, I played a wild card. Although the British in fact told us nothing of their military plans, the Argentines plainly believed that we knew everything the British did. Possibly this misconception could be useful. I...
Mrs. Thatcher was by far the strongest, the shrewdest and the most clear-sighted player in the game. A statesman is a leader who, knowing where the true interests of the nation lie, resists counsel that .clashes with conviction. Margaret Thatcher belongs in that company. But when I say that...
Although the U.S. government ostensibly represents their views, the Micronesians have no representatives in Congress. In March of 1979, the Marshall use established a constitutional government which was approved by popular referendum. A year later the U.S. and Marshall Islands agreed to a pact of free association, giving the Marshall...