Word: regarding
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Juffure never existed says Handlin. Especially the references to the way those Africans behaved: all available evidence proves Africans had no concept of Africa, nor did they regard all Africans as brothers. Also, according to Handlin, Haley's Kunta Kinte is not a man of the 18th-century West African coast, but a 20th-century civil rights activist...
...World War II and Auschwitz: You will forgive me, ladies and gentlemen, for invoking this memory. But I would be untrue to the history of this century, I would be dishonest with regard to the great cause of man, which we all wish to serve, if I should keep silent, I who come from the country on whose living body Auschwitz was at one time constructed. But my purpose in evoking this memory is above all to show what painful experiences and sufferings by millions of people gave rise to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which has been placed...
Though he chose Cornell, Dick Jr. still has a high regard for Harvard...
...Soviet brigade does not threaten the U.S. militarily, it does endanger the nation's security interests. But even while his President was talking tough, Vance was cautioning against overdramatizing the issue. Three weeks before, in the first major Administration statement on the brigade, Vance had said: "We regard this as a very serious problem." But last week he emphasized to a Manhattan luncheon of the Foreign Policy Association that "we have significant interests at stake in our total relationship with the Soviet Union." Thus the matter of the Soviet troops must be kept "in proper perspective." Although that message...
...Americans have difficulty understanding Mexico, they have to a certain extent a valid excuse. In response to their country's tumultuous past, wrote Poet Octavio Paz in Labyrinth of Solitude, Mexicans have erected elaborate psychological "masks" to shield themselves from a world that they "regard instinctively to be dangerous." One such mask is machismo, the image...