Word: life
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...People seem more interested in paying attention to petty procedural issues here than issues of life and liberty there," said, referring to the escalation of civil disorder in El Salvador...
...sort of experience it must be for East Berliners to come to the capitalist West for the first time. What are they feeling over there? The most interesting strain of the media's commentary on their experiences has been the wonder East Berliners have felt upon trying out bourgeois life for the first time--upon realizing, for instance, that there could be a hundred different kinds of sausage, all in the same store, each truly distinct from the rest...
...centered as that, though. Admittedly, "bourgeois" is one of the world's vaguer words, but it nonetheless seems to me that Johnston Gate in Harvard Yard has a lot in common with the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. They're both gateways into a sort of bourgeois way of life...
...intifada] is deepening its roots in the society," said Aruri. "The intifada is a way of life for all of the people in the Occupied Territories...
Almost alone among his contemporaries, Malamud was equally gifted at the novel and short story. In some moods he preferred the short form: "In a few pages a good story portrays the complexity of a life while producing the surprise and effect of knowledge -- not a bad payoff." All the stories salvaged here are good, and so is the payoff...