Word: publicness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Klerk has offered some concessions to South African Blacks. Last month he released several jailed African National Congress (ANC) leaders. And this month he desegregated public beaches and recreational facilities and provided some public lands for integrated housing...
These supporters of apartheid have leaned away from even superficial reforms, complaining that any compromise with the Blacks is a sellout. When De Klerk opened public beaches to all South Africans, for instance, right leaders called the move "intolerable...
...article starts with the completely wrong premise that all Germans have an intense desire to reunify and regain the strength Germany had in the past. I, for one, surely don't, and public opinion polls also show that the majority of West Germans are opposed to reunification. East Germans are also more concerned with changes within East Germany, including the right to free travel, than with reunification. The reunification debate is not a matter of discussion in the Germanies. The debate is largely held abroad. Therefore, the analogy comparing the appeasement policy in the 1930s to today's situation completely...
...raise four issues (out of many) at the heart of our existence as a nation which, within the context of an American Glasnost, need to be debated from this country to the other. These issues, which today receive virtually no public attention at all, need to be discussed vigorously within the Congress, the state legislatures, the city halls, in every streetcorner and wherever Americans come together...
Politicians are blissfully silent on Thanksgiving. Such restraint is appropriate for a holiday that commemorates one of the rare occasions when the white man treated the Indian with dignity and respect. But public officials may also be chastened by the experience of Franklin Roosevelt, the only modern President to try to tamper with Thanksgiving. Back in 1939, Roosevelt touched off a patriotic uprising when he issued a proclamation unilaterally shifting Thanksgiving from the then customary last Thursday in November (the 30th) to the fourth Thursday (the 23rd) as a way of granting Depression-era merchants a longer Christmas selling season...