Word: reclaim
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...several hundred human bones between 9,000 and 13,000 years old. They will go to the Victoria Museum, where a panel will decide whether the bones should be reinterred. The move was yet another victory for Australia's native people, the aborigines, who, in an effort to reclaim their cultural and spiritual heritage, have been waging a legal battle to recover the skulls and bones of their ancestors, locked away in laboratories and museums. In Tasmania recently, officials ordered the return of a state collection of ancient bones to the aborigines. And earlier this year, native Australians prevented...
...sunshine and the lovely memory of every American's uncle, the late Democratic Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson. It was too tiny a melody for the tin ears of the networks. And yet, those few moments foreshadowed the very bugle call of Ronald Reagan's campaign to reclaim the Oval Office...
...overwhelming majority of prayer advocates, of course, would be horrified by such tactics. It is their freedom to pray, they insist, that has been taken away by a zealous cadre of secularists, and they are only trying to reclaim it, without coercing anyone. Polls have consistently shown heavy majorities in favor of school prayer; Gallup reported last September that 81% of respondents who had followed the issue supported an amendment that would permit "voluntary" prayer, vs. only 14% opposed. Says Dan Alexander, president of a Mobile, Ala., organization called Save Our Schools: "We've allowed a small, very vocal...
...Carter and Brown, was a parody of the symbols the Left still has to offer--tired repetitions of the idea that politics could be groovy as well as homespun. But what Reagan has done--and it must be seen as some kind of bizarre triumph--has been to reclaim the remnants of the symbolism of the right: the we're-the-really-good-guys syndrome that descends directly from Jefferson and Hoover. And he has accommodated them to the new ground of television, where the heart of the present American lies. We are an America of exit polls, of projection...
...secret, but the boy's indifference to it. What's all the fuss, Edo sleepily wonders, about the central issue of his would-be mentor's life. The next to go is Diego (Omero Antonutti). Encouraged by youth's unconscious example, he vainly seeks to reclaim the woman he loved and abandoned when he was Edo's age. The boy might be moved by Diego's plight, but just at the moment he is involved with a girl revolutionary he smuggled across the Austro-Italian border. Alvaro (Hector Alterio), his sexuality dampened by illness...