Word: reclaim
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This season, however, Broadway has three new musical productions that reclaim the giddy simplicity of the past. Only one, the Caribbean fable Once on This Island, is entirely new. Buddy, a biographical sketch of rocker Buddy Holly, who died in 1959, naturally features his old hits. And Oh, Kay! straddles the line between being a revival of the 1926 Gershwin success and an imaginative reworking of its raw material. Strikingly, these stories of boy meets girl all take place long ago or far away. Apparently our times remain too cynical for headlong romance close to home...
That's true. Deconstructionism attempts to unveil the myths which surround our traditional notions of literature, government and economics. We should reclaim them. We should because we need to buy into the myth that we can speak the same language. I'm too inexperienced to know if we can, but if we agree up front that we can't, then it's over. We're better off living a myth than living apart...
Bush's approval rating may have plummeted after he agreed to new taxes, but it will hit zero when he takes his defense of elite America to the American public. Democrats have a golden opportunity to reclaim their populist identity as the party of the working and middle classes in America. By supporting tax equity and fairness, they can focus attention on solving domestic problems that have been neglected too long. Rather than spout empty tax rhetoric that nobody believes anymore, Democrats can begin to address the problems that President Bush has abandoned...
Ever since President Richard Nixon fired him as Interior Secretary in 1970, Walter Hickel has coveted the Alaska governorship he gave up to go to Washington. He has tried everything short of a coup d'etat to reclaim it -- Republican primaries, write-in campaigns, even lawsuits. Last week, at 71, Hickel found yet another way to pursue his goal: he became the candidate of the Alaskan Independence Party, a fringe group that wants the state to secede from the U.S. Hickel named as his running mate state senator Jack Coghill, 65, who defected from the No. 2 spot...
Good luck to us all, I thought, in light of the escalating violence in the country. If we can bury the past, rectify decades of oppression, reclaim the lost generation, overcome the dangerous death throes of right-wing and left- wing extremism and create a real democracy in this country, there would be a great future for South Africa. A colossal task, with colossal challenges. But a start had been made by brave men, and I hoped and believed they would gain the support they deserved...