Word: reminding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...guts and skill to steer through the Senate a one-year elimination of cost-of-living increases, a deficit-reduction measure later blamed for the G.O.P.'s loss of the Senate in 1986. Yet last summer, when I asked him if leadership didn't demand that he at least remind seniors that they get far more out of Social Security than they pay in, Dole said, "I'm not gonna tell them that. There's something called suicide, you know." To deal with the obvious solvency questions, Dole mused about a means test for benefits and an increase...
...fears of global warning and a nuclear winter--we cannot much affect. Seasons teach us about transitions, for winter elides into spring as gently as remorse into regret, or adolescence into youth. And just when we assume that winter is gone, an unseasonable blizzard will come down to remind us we were wrong...
...reflected in the fact that doctors speak of seasonal affective disorder. And though the pattern of the skies is still felt on the pulse and in the bones of every farmer and nomad, those of us immured in 14-story office blocks, under fluorescent lighting, need Easter eggs to remind us of the day: if we can't go back to nature, we have to let nature come back...
...last years, from 1865 or so until his death, Corot produced an exquisite series of small figure paintings, mostly of young women sitting before the easel in the brown clutter of his studio. Some remind you of Chardin, others are prophecies of Whistler. Interrupted Reading, circa 1870-73, is strikingly modern in its broadly painted triangular planes of muted color, regulated by two patches of black--the model's hair and her bodice--and relieved only by some red coral beads. Its Raphaelesque formal clarity looks back to neoclassicism but also forward to Picasso's dropsical women. It shows that...
...believers and nonbelievers alike and once considered a perfectly adequate foundation for liberalism. Instead of trying to reinvent it, maybe our morality mavens should be asking what happened to it and how we got into such a sorry condition that we need 277 pages of closely reasoned text to remind us of what something as elementary as integrity looks like...