Word: proof
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proof, MacLeish presented a letter Bassett sent to author Whitley Striber 10 months before her meeting with Mack in which Bassett refers to her encounter with UFOs...
Mandarins as a group are at a crossroads right now. The system that produces them has matured. The proof is that Mandarins hold the White House. They have not, however, been able to generate a wide consensus around themselves as leaders, a general acceptance of them as a group that ought to be in charge--even though they've spent years being carefully, expensively trained for leadership roles. Almost the opposite of what was planned for the Mandarins has happened: the consensus is that they shouldn't be in charge. The Episcopacy, a much more elitist and less fairly chosen...
...American dream and the working class are still an affecting source of drama; Sam Shepard and David Mamet are proof. But Death of a Salesman, with its focus on idealism, fails to address the core concerns of an increasingly skeptical world that has already learned from Willy's lesson. Idealism is not a universal frailty like Othello's jealousy or Hamlet's indecision, but a transient societal attitude, and one that is not pervasive today. Those who do not agree will probably enjoy the show...
...still at ground zero: no jobs, no investment, no roads, virtually no electricity or telecommunications or running water, sporadic fuel. The people's adoration of Aristide has buffered their bitter disappointment, but they do not hold Preval in the same regard, and he will have to produce concrete proof of democracy's shiny promises...
Voting as a student in New Hampshire requires only proof of student status in addition to the usual qualifications for registration. Students can even register at the polls on election day if they swear certain affidavits when they arrive, according to the Rock the Vote posters...