Word: presention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...understanding of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict: decontextualized violence often comes across in Western media as barbaric outbursts of terrorism, when in fact they are tragic reactions to the systematic violence that has been inflicted upon Palestinians from the inception of the colonial state of Israel in 1948 to the present. This foundational injustice must never be forgotten. Mohammad Al-Ississ '99, Amahl Bishara '98, Waqaas Fahmawi '99, Society of Arab Students
Unlike Nair's sexy ancient love story, however, Mehta (director and writer) weaves a much more accessible plot in the modern, if less romantic, setting of a present-day middle class family in New Delhi...
This duality is brought out with all the more force in the "simple-stage" version of the play, which is as it was originally written, and as the Lyric Stage, not surprisingly, chooses to present it. In this pared-down form (Shaw himself later added material for cinematic purposes), we don't see Eliza actually learning to speak; we don't see her triumph at the Embassy reception; we don't see Higgins' nominal rival, Freddy, at all after the third act. What we do see are the progressive stages of the awakening of a human being, measured against...
...Evangelical and extremist religious groups are inundating our campuses with messages of guilt, unreason and intolerance. Freethinkers...present an alternative," Araujo said...
...that you ought not fret? Take it in stride, as I do the junk discarded onto me. I will endure and outlast it. You, too, will continue onward, past burdens of the present and even those of the future. They are not pleasant, of course. But neither is your sewage, which is part of my existence...