Word: reminding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cooperation and collective enterprise that was as simple and forthright as a barn-raising. Western thinkers from John Locke to Oliver Wendell Holmes believe that individuality at some point has to give ground to group needs. It has taken a successful country on the rim of Asia to remind the U.S. that teamwork, however it is organized, is still the prerequisite for a prosperous society. -By Christopher Byron. Reported by S. Chang and Edwin M. Reingold/Tokyo
...married off and their house feels large. David, retired union organizer, is outgoing and affable. Eva, on the other hand, is introverted--slightly deaf, she is able to turn off the world by turning off her hearing aid. But she cannot extinguish a constant stream of disturbing flashbacks that remind her of years spent in Nazi concentration camps. Together, the husband and wife quarrel about selling the house. He sees it as a pragmatic move, but she cannot part with the memories and dreams...
...predictable announcements came from the public address man: "We'd like to remind you that the official clock is the one on the scoreboard facing the benches and the scorer's table." The other timepiece had gone on sabbatical...
...FILM'S FINAL skit, the writers refer by name to a true pornographic movie. A middle-aged swinger, played by Lino Ventura, finds a dusty little black book, with entries that remind him of the adventures of his youth. While his wife is out of town, he decides to rediscover a few of his old flames. Unfortunately, the most he--or any of us--come up with are a few glowing cinders and a lot of smoke...
Peter Lange's announcement that he will leave Harvard because he was not offered tenure should remind us of the problems recurrent in the tenure system. Discrimination, whether on the basis of race, sex, or political opinions, intra-departmental politics and just plain short-sightedness have robbed us all of many of the highest quality educators, especially in recent years...