Word: reminding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...teacher in the Odessa school system, I would like to remind you that the Greeks, who held scholars in the highest esteem, also prized athletes. I have never had an A-student jock who did not place English, math, science and history above athletic honors, and I have had more A-type jocks than those scraping to pass...
...finally there is Lear, a white, tousle-haired man whose crinkled face and impish carriage remind one more of an elf than a king. But this is not unintentional, for Kozintsev's Lear emphasizes correctly the humanness of its central character. Lear's fall is not of the same grandeur as Oedipus in Sophocles's tragedy, Oedipus-Tyrannus. Rather it is the fall of a vain, petty man whose self-centered need for flattery destroys his only loving daughter and ruins his sacred kingdom...
...relief to read "Making a Mint Overnight" [Jan. 23]. Thanks for turning from hunger, war and poverty to remind us of excellence and its rewards...
...recommendations in the Kissinger report remind me of the attempts by the Alliance for Progress to solve Latin America's problems. The Alliance failed despite the expenditure of nearly $10 billion. In all likelihood, the Kissinger suggestions will also come to naught. Unfortunately, the Kissinger panel does not demand basic structural changes in Central American institutions, changes that could prevent more military governments from coming to power and that could reduce the gap between a rich minority and an impoverished majority...
...himself as an English Pierrot, the clown whose laughter cannot quite disguise the catch in his throat. Of the nearly 300 songs in Coward's collection, the dead-on love ballads are the weakest: "Time and tide can never sever/ Those whom love has bound forever" serves to remind the reader that Coward grew up in the Edwardian heyday. But such songs as I'll See You Again, Someday I'll Find You and A Room with a View display the author's unique amalgam of anticipation and nostalgia ("Time may he heavy between,/ But what...