Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...King served merely as goads? U.S. civil rights legislation mattered very much to Americans; will it have mattered to the rest of the world? Will America have mattered to the rest of the world after a hundred more 60-year periods have vanished, and will we stand in regard to the curious nations of the future as the Etruscans or the Titans...
...When Jumblatt was assassinated in March 1977, the hereditary mantle fell to his son Walid, a mercurial, motorbike-riding young man usually seen in faded blue jeans and a leather jacket. Although Walid, 36, has remained true to his father's principles, many of his countrymen regard him as a weak-willed puppet. They especially distrust his wary alliance with the Syrians, who are widely believed to have engineered his father's murder. Nonetheless, the Druze wholeheartedly support their leader. Last December, as Walid recuperated from a second attempt on his life, crowds gathered outside the hospital. Their...
...voters without paying a price. New-guard right-wing Republicans can no longer be allowed to reverse federal responsibility for basic needs of Blacks in areas like voting rights, food stamps, affirmative action, job training, and unemployment, without paying a price. In giving Afro-Americans a leg up in regard to these matters, Jesse Jackson's presidential candidacy will surely be worth...
...unreasonable to try to regard Daniel as either pure fiction or pure political statement. The social and political issues raised in the movie--justice in American society, the value of political activism, the vulnerability of civil liberties--could never appear as prominently and powerfully as they do without the legacy of the Rosenberg case: but the film resists giving answers on those issues by presenting them from a stubbornly emotional and subjective stance...
...puritanical soul for a lifetime, reluctantly awakens. He knows that with the return to Paris of Danton, once a colleague in revolution-now his mortal enemy-he must begin his final struggle, not just for power in the new, terror-ridden French Republic, but for posterity's good regard as well...