Word: reminder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brick houses of Beacon Hill remain to remind us of the glory that once was Boston's. Louisburg Square, with its 22 houses set around little garden in the center, best reflects the serenity, the calm, assured optimism, the decorous propriety of the Brahmins of yore. The pattern of these houses is English; No. 20 Louisburg Square was used for the filming of Thackeray's Vanity Fair...
...remote province of Anatolia. Recklessly brave and a deadly marksman, Memed battles his environment and a succession of superb villains. Chief among them: sly, goat-bearded Abdi Agha, who owns five villages and combines the brutality of Simon Legree with the buffoonery of Captain Hook. Readers will have to remind themselves from time to time that all this is happening in the 20th century...
...School occasionally does try to remind itself that, despite statistics, its sole raison d'etre is not to supply the best-trained clerks for Wall Street law offices. It must also keep in mind the needs of those who will become small-town practitioners, law teachers, or career government employees...
...Fidel Castro, and believe that the U.S. has scored an unthinking propaganda coup. But whatever his critics or supporters decide, Kennedy was right to accept the offer. By spurning it, he would have been betraying the men the U.S. landed in Cuba, and giving Castro still another opportunity to remind Latin Americans of a fact that already know--that the burden of blame for Cuba today rests on the shoulders of the United States. Our pattern of denial must...
Pete Seeger recalls that several years ago he was asked by a CRIMSON reporter whether he ever put propaganda into his performances. Seeger explained to the reporter then--as he loves to remind his audiences--that folksinging is propaganda. "You know," he said, "even love songs can be propaganda. Take a song like Careless Love, which is about unrequited love. That's propaganda for unrequition." The next day Seeger found himself in a CRIMSON headline, "Seeger Says He sings Propaganda Songs...