Word: reminding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What you have to realize, says Pierce Gerety, the director of the International Rescue Committee in Thailand, is that "their whole country has been burned over." Gerety, his wife Marie, and Neil Boothby, a child psychologist, all of whom work steadily with these children, need continually to remind themselves that the small serious eyes that look up to them have taken in sights that should exist only in hell. A common story the children tell is of seeing pregnant women tied to trees, their stomachs then slit open by bayonets. More common still is the liver torture-the children draw...
...chalk circles around the bases of his "models" on the surface of the table.) Sometimes the things have the look of architecture; the slender bottle necks, leaning together, vaguely recall the towers of Bologna and San Gimignano. Occasionally their groups, bound together by some mutual gravitation of shape, might remind one of people insecurely huddled on the edge of Morandi's small flat earth, the tabletop...
...form that once looked flat and light brown; how many colors may be contained, as dusty hints and afterimages of themselves, in what seemed to be a sequence of gray patches. If the straight side of a bottle seems to waver, it only does so to remind us how mutable and hard to fix the act of seeing really is. And if the shapes look simple, their simplicity is extremely deceptive; one recognizes in it the distillation of an intensely pure sensibility, under whose gaze the size of the painting, the silence of the motif and the inwardness...
Most students using either the NDSL or the GSL will be required to meet with financial aid officers soon to negotiate alterations in their packages. Notices will be sent out to remind those who have reached their earning ceilings...
Vogel cited the worldwide development of fundamentalism and the populatrity of religious leaders like the Pope as signs of a global search for reassurance. These signs should remind world powers that their primary task is to "safeguard and preserve peace," he added...