Word: meaningfulness
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The awkward title says it all: the platform tries to meld the "competence" of Michael Dukakis with the "hope" conveyed by Jesse Jackson. "Restoration" can be seen as a small bow to the platform's author, Theodore Sorensen, who was John Kennedy's speechwriter. Sorensen's secret: exhausting run-on...
Culled from the column for The New Oxford Review that he has filled for several years now, these essays resemble closely the letters that his father used to meticulously prepare as he tried to make sense of a world whose meaning otherwise might escape him. As a young child, Coles...
The Japanese are bound by a web of mutual obligations that link every individual to every other. But this lattice of relationships has no meaning outside Japan -- a fact that can profoundly distress older Japanese who venture to other lands. The lessons of a lifetime are suddenly useless: the rest...
Mamelodi is a black township of more than 300,000 on the outskirts of Pretoria. At Smith's request, not only was he about to become its white minister, but also he and his wife Ellen would be its sole white inhabitants. The Afrikaners, among whom Smith had spent his...
Such problems are partly because of a shortage of attorneys willing to spend some time representing the poor free of charge. Pro bono work is the trade term for it, from the Latin pro bono publico, meaning "for the public good." It has long been a tenet of the profession...