Word: reminded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Your Essay will remind Americans that their philosophical heritage should be reconsidered. In 1837 Emerson wrote, "This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it." America could renew itself with some of Emerson's idealism...
...Rocky's dying coach Mickey. Burgess Meredith gives an accomplished, however brief, performance. Perhaps its brevity explains its success. As a character, Mickey, like Adrian, Paul and Balboa, hasn't really changed since Rocky. But because he only appears for a relatively short time, Meredith manages to remind the audience of Mickey's likeability and commitment while avoiding over-kill. And Meredith performs with humor. He trains Rocky in a hotel ballroom, full of posters, balloons and a band that plays Rocky's theme song. Mickey turns and shouts. "Shut up back there. And change your tune." If only...
...well-established fact here in the West. The excesses of the totalitarian system there--the random arrests, the extensive security methods, the harshness of prison life, the denial of civil-liberties--have rightly horrified us. And there has proved no lack of Solzhenitsyns, Sakhorovs, and Pasternaks to remind us of these and other terrors...
Analyze Boston's poor foul shooting or marvel at Andrew Toney's unstoppable jump shot if you must; complain about the refereeing or remind your roommate from Philadelphia that Tiny spent yesterday on the bench in street clothes. The sophisticated fans, wherever they sat, joined that stirring end-of-game cheer, out of respect for the Celtics and for a team that showed it doesn't choke after all. As far as you're concerned, the championship's been won, Best...
...government, unions are becoming increasingly unruly. Last month a walkout disrupted production at the country's two major automobile companies, Renault and Citroën. Laborers at both firms were demanding higher wages and other benefits. Coming from the Socialist President's natural constituency, such unrest should remind Mitterrand that support can never be taken for granted, and that in politics, seven years, not to say 14, is a very long time...