Word: reminder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whatever its critics may have said about the manned space program, its real value lay in its ability to remind us of the true insignificance of our disputes, inspire us to continue to work for a better world and unite all men in a pride in mankind's ability to achieve its goals. In this year of scandals and shortages, what do we have to take its place...
...Israelis came last week when Sadat named a new Cabinet, which seemed to signal a commitment to peace. The Cairo press called it a "Cabinet of development" to succeed the "Cabinet of confrontation." Sadat appointed Abdel Aziz Hegazi, a British-educated moderate, as First Deputy Premier. Hegazi likes to remind government workers: "We must think as businessmen, not as bureaucrats...
...most about Robert Altman's Thieves Like Us are the surfaces of things, the lyric Mississippi atmosphere, the rural details, the moods and faces. These are only incidentals in a lot of films, but here they are pleasant enough to be the most important things, and also to remind us that the best function of art is often not that of probing "depths" but of making us understand and love shallow things, things of the surface...
...Venetian palace, in a sense, has more business in Boston than in Venice, if only to remind us that not everything need be strictly chronologically or nationally ordered...
...cause of some future national disaster: If American government and society reach the point of disintegration it will be because of social forces greater than Nixon or any other individual office-holder. But while an impeachment will likely bring neither substantive change nor total chaos, it may serve to remind the American people of the crucial distinction between president and presidency, a distinction that is present even in the most "primitive" societies...