Word: reminders
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...came to Budapest to get away from my life as I knew it in the Northeast Corridor, to remind myself that the world was bigger than New York and Boston, that somewhere people were speaking other languages and, maybe, thinking different thoughts. And Eastern Europe is different...
...most elevated level, as in the writings of the philosopher Walter Berns, this position assumes real moral weight. "Capital punishment," writes Berns, "serves to remind us of the majesty of the moral order that is embodied in our law and of the terrible consequences of its breach... The criminal law must be made awful, by which I mean awe-inspiring, or commanding 'profound respect or reverential fear.' It must remind us of the moral order by which alone we can live as human beings." Which is to say, some animals need killing, if only to remind the rest...
...Australian by birth, TIME art critic Robert Hughes tends to view his adopted land--and its art--with an anthropologist's eye. That's probably as it should be. America, he likes to remind us, is an immigrant society, and its art reflects the cultures of its settlers. For the past three years, Hughes has been trying to capture the essence of these cultural accretions. One result is an 88-page special report titled American Visions, which will reach our subscribers and newsstands across the country this week...
...Deans remind us that this is not a new policy; rather, the College is going back to its schedule of three and four years past. We agree that the decision is indeed a regression and we urge the administration to reconsider...
...answer, for decades, was Leah's. She's the mother for whom her son throws elaborate parties. One time he created a shtetl on a sound stage to remind his mother of her father's Russian roots. "They had live chickens and goats," she says, "and dancers and lots of vodka." Spielberg unabashedly adores his mother. "There's no way for me to be closer to her," he testifies, "except to live inside her. Which I've already done...