Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former exchange student in China, I believe you captured much of the spirit of China's rapidly changing society. However, you failed to mention the regime's policy of religious freedom, which since 1978 has permitted China's 7 million Christians to pack their churches every Sunday...
...Games was carefully timed to coincide less with the arrival of the Olympic flame in New York than with the Soviet national holiday celebrating victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. And then it was heavily downplayed?a short story on the back page of Pravda, a brief mention close to the end of the main nightly newscast?in the apparent hope that it would be, at least momentarily, overlooked in a burst of patriotic fervor...
...communities here have been clashing ever since the Irish immigrants challenged Yankee hegemony in this most Protestant of cities. But don't mention that; it could get in the way of plans for Boston's grand future. In the high stakes of development politics, lots of concerned committees and lots of pictures of politicians fraternizing with the locals makes effective...
...does Dan Rather mention the Iran-Iraq war almost parenthetically as the evening's fourth story--preceded by a Tab commercial--and only as a 20 second blurb? And why don't we find the horror stories of the battlefield massacres on the front page of The New York Times? Why is the story a short column on page A23, between a story on a municipal garbage strike and an ad for cheap shots...
When talking about analysis of her work, Welty has been known to mention W.C. Fields, "who read an analysis of how he juggled. He couldn't juggle for six years afterwards. He'd never known how it was done. He'd just thrown up the balls and juggled." But on the Saturday morning after her birthday party, she addressed the subject more solemnly, saying the writer builds something, while the analyst tears it apart to see what it is made of. "I think," she said charitably, "that whatever makes people feel in touch with a [she paused...