Word: reminding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crown Prince Hassan said angrily, "This really is the final phase of Israel's efforts to liquidate the Palestinian people," and Jordan's Foreign Minister Marwan el Kassem declared: "The sight of Israeli civilian settlers firing guns into a crowd of unarmed Arab demonstrators can only remind us of the tactics used to drive Palestinians from their homes...
...once in a while Pryor gets the urge to be humanitarian, to show that beneath his vulgar exterior lies a man aware of the seriousness of the subjects he is discussing. Much in the same manner that Don Rickles takes time out from his usual barrage of insults to remind us that we should all love each other regardless of race colour or creed. Pryor interrupts his routine a couple of times to say things like "Racism's an ugly thing. I hope someday they give it up." "This is all well and good, but it is very...
...expecting it, but there had been so many crises survived...Dreams, usually not spoken for fear of having to eat the words, but dreams nonetheless that perhaps this was the start of some peaceful evolution to a human government. If martial law served any good end, it was to remind the world what almost all of us knew that the soviet system was impermeable to decency, incontrovertible in its evil. In the same way, Sontag's formulation of "the essentially despotic nature of the Communist system (that is, a country any country ruled by a I Leninist Party)" is useful...
...view of past history held by rightists and of future history held by sectarian leftists makes them impervious to reality. Open to the world, it will be harder for this generation--an all the generations that follow--to be radical. What Sontag and others of her place and time remind us with their sad history is that we can't believe: instead we must think. borrowing what we can from the communists and capitalists and the Buddhists and anyone else. But if that is tougher, it is also more exciting, more liberating. In some sense, the revolution will be inside...
...Coop management, then, the store's 100th anniversary should be occasion not for placid celebration--for profits alone are nothing to celebrate--but instead for looking both back at the Coop's past and ahead to its future. The past should remind them of the forgotten ideals of the retail cooperative--fair prices, compassionate treatment of workers, and cooperation with its membership. The future, we hope, will allow the Coop to realize those ideals better than it has in recent years...