Word: person
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jacobstein said he did not believe the officers could have known whether a person leaving the dance in a leather jacket had stolen it. Jacobstein said that when he attends parties from now on, "I probably will not take my jacket...
...proved unable to reach into his gut to discover his emotions, the heartland of any political soul. For this cautious candidate, a man slow to anger and reluctant to laugh, the risk of exploration was too great. After nearly two years of campaigning, Dukakis remains essentially the same person as when he began. He has barely grown as a candidate. And growth is the least that Americans demand of a potential President...
...hardly news that catastrophes, man-made and otherwise, are pummeling Africa. But Shoumatoff's first-person reports do not simply catalog misery. Once on the scene, the author concentrates on the feel of a place and the conversation of the local residents, building the big picture through small details. He acknowledges Fossey's courage in trying to protect an endangered band of mountain gorillas; he also discovers that her love for the great apes was matched by her contempt for the Rwandan people. In the Central African Republic he encounters people who wonder why the West makes such a fuss...
...wanted to help the students here who will be public administrators think about the disabled not just in terms of helping students with disabilities, but also in terms of recognizing people with disabilities as resources to society. This play depicts how a person who has the capability to be a great resource was prevented from doing so by a perverted, distorted family structure." said McCarthy...
...related to his experiences, but I didn't understand how crucial to the actor and the show that it was that he be a real person," he adds...