Word: prisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...German automaker Volkswagen was careful to add an array of modern amenities such as an adjustable steering column, a six-speaker stereo system, an air filter for the cabin, and air bags front and side. Still, such similarly equipped subcompacts as the Honda Civic, GM Saturn, Ford Escort, Chevrolet Prism and Toyota Corolla are all cheaper and better-established models...
These men saw the world through the prism of evangelical Christianity. They could not conceive of a moral order outside the literal word of the Bible--I can't imagine one within it. On one level what they were saying frightened and disturbed me. But that did not obscure the fact that they seemed to be genuinely concerned, sincere people who believed they were speaking with compassion. Misguided yes; dangerous, certainly; but evil like I had been taught? I had to hesitate...
...modern tragedies, was the turning point in Jiang's career. Three weeks after the protests were quelled with violence and bloodshed, Deng named Jiang the new General Secretary of the Communist Party. The choice was a surprise. Jiang's record in Shanghai was solid, if unspectacular, but in the prism of Chinese politics he had other things going for him. He was now a favorite of the Old Guard. During the early days of the Tiananmen protests, he had sacked the editor of a daringly liberal, independent newspaper in Shanghai called the World Economic Herald, an act that proved...
...death, became a wandering holy man and eventually formulated the Four Noble Truths that unite all Buddhists today: that life is full of suffering; that most of that suffering, including the fear of death, can be traced to "desire," the mind's habit of seeing everything through the prism of the self and its well-being; that this craving can be transcended, leading to peace and eventually to an exalted state of full enlightenment called Nirvana; and that the means to do that lies in the Eightfold Path of proper views, resolve, speech, action, livelihood, effort, mindfulness and concentration...
...interview just before her wedding to Charles, Lady Diana Spencer, then 20, said she had one musical request for the ceremony. "[I've asked for] one hymn, 'I vow to thee, my country,' which has always been my favorite since schooldays." Today, through the prism of her whole life, the words of its two stanzas are possessed of the awful poignancy of half-fulfilled prophecy...