Word: lording
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry: "The Chinese government cares deeply about human rights. There are no saviors on the question of human rights. The Chinese people will save themselves." The Americans disagreed. "It's not a matter of talking about American values or Chinese values," said Winston Lord, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. "We're not telling China to be like America. We're talking about universal rights. And arbitrary arrests or torture. It's got nothing to do with normality. There are universal rights in the U.N. charter...
...Poet' that O'Neill refers to is the nebulous spirit which makes men dream and which the suffering women of the story are meant to understand and love unconditionally. The choice of poets supposedly echoes the American sentiments of the age, with Lord Byron representing Melody's Romantic longing for Old World ways, and Thoreau's Yankee desire for freedom from internal oppression assigned to Sara's lover Mr. Harford, a character we never...
...Neill never completed the other ten. While the conflicts of the play, both domestic and ideological are expertly crafted by O'Neill, he never achieves the necessary element of making us care. Until the last scenes, there is no movement, no reason to watch. The question of whether Lord Byron or Thoreau win in the end is not enough to sustain a drama. By the time resolution is ours, we have little interest in it beyond the academic...
...strange things going on in Briggs Cage, huh? Penn waltzes into town with a lord-knows-how-many-game Ivy winning streak, and Harvard comes within a hair's breadth of pulling off the biggest college basketball since Virginia-Chaminade, right...
Finding taboos in Brazil is not easy. How many can be left in a country where homeless children are hunted by death squads? White skins still lord it over black skins, but, unlike North Americans, Brazilians have a working concept of interracial society. "All colors merge into one joyous, sun- stunned flesh-color, coating the sand with a second living skin," writes Updike of Copacabana, the beach where Tristao meets Isabel. In a gesture of courtly love, he presents her with a ring stripped from the finger of a matronly tourist. The initials on the crest are DAR (Daughters...