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...anti-Vietnam War speech that won him not monuments or holidays, but disparaging criticism. As U.S. Cold War posturing and Vietnam militarism derailed the support of the black freedom struggles of the 1960s, King began to see that America’s global imperialism, obsessive pursuit of free market capitalism, and white supremacy are intimately intertwined and connected to each other. Reconciling his profoundly humanist sentiments with the reality of modern racism, capitalism, and imperialism, King saw black civil rights as merely a prelude to the larger struggle for the achievement of a common humanity worldwide. King began to speak...
...toward God and thus subject to divine laws best enunciated through the church. In his view, that dignity, which commenced at conception, was mortally affronted by contraception, abortion, euthanasia and the death penalty and wounded by war, anti-Semitism and the crushing debt repayments imposed upon poor nations. The pursuit of individual freedoms, untempered by moral teaching, meanwhile, would eventually lead to a "culture of death" corrosive to respect for family, for church and, eventually, for life. The West, he warned, was in the grip of that culture...
LOST (ABC, WEDNESDAYS, 8 P.M. E.T.) Each week a band of unfortunates narrowly escapes deadly pitfalls in pursuit of a shadowy mystery. Not the characters--the writers. They've recklessly piled on several seasons' worth of plot twists in one year. Yet the show has stayed just this side of ridiculous, through grounded performances and a flashback device that keeps it all from getting too claustrophobic--and helps newcomers get to know the cast...
According to Carter, other reasons for greater female representation at the college level may include the pursuit of more vocational and military jobs by men, the perception of the school as a female-dominated space or even the greater social control exercised by parents over girls in the academic realm...
...funeral pyre. Ray Smith’s highly stylized design hides both from view, though periodically between scenes we hear the haunting crackle of unseen flames. Smith’s concept of invisible flames works as theatrical genius, making fire itself one of the many ghosts in hot pursuit of Aeneas and the Trojans. It also allows room for the internal but equally violent blazes of the half-maddened mortals to burn all the more horribly onstage...