Word: reclaim
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...kind of egalitarian move, where there is the sense that art should not be something that is made by a few, and only accessible to a few,” he says. “The idea in many cases with Fluxus is to sort of rescue experience and reclaim that kind of special experience for the everyday,” says Proctor. “The idea wasn’t to get rid of art so we live in this world of bland unrelenting sameness,” he adds. “It is that we should...
...high school locker room, my teammates would be constantly high-fiving and congratulating each other on what girls they had been with that weekend,” Baehr says. “When me and a few others commiserated about being excluded, we decided to reclaim the idea of being a virgin as something to be proud of, and I never felt bad after that...
...industrial relations laws "would have deeply offended the responsible conservatism and social liberalism of Robert Menzies"-Australia's longest-serving leader and a hero to Howard. With Howard's "market fundamentalism" taking the country to the right, Rudd sketched out a Blair-style terrain that social-democratic Labor could reclaim. "The time has come to restore the balance in Australian politics," Rudd wrote, using one of Howard's much-loved metaphors...
...supposed to be like that," Rudd argued. "The white picket fence and all it stands for is supposed to be enhanced, not undermined, by Hayek's economic revolution." A few weeks later, Rudd was Labor leader. The lines tested on elite opinion ("a bridge too far," "reclaim the center ground") were now fed into a media machine that couldn't get enough of this smiling new man promising a new leadership style and fresh everything-ideas, vision, energy...
...years into his papacy, Benedict XVI may be about to reclaim his reputation as a no-holds-barred traditionalist. Thanks to Benedict's thoughtful manner, Church progressives had believed that the man who was once the hard-line Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger would cut some slack on areas of doctrinal contention - using his intellectual heft and traditional credentials as necessary cover. But as Benedict turns 80 on April 16 and marks two years as Pope on April 19, the once hopeful progressives have all but given up their fantasy of Benedict the Reformer...