Word: reminding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hayes says even a simple walk around campuscould remind a student that the war was going...
Indeed, when the son of President Kennedy entered the ballroom, the applause was so great that Sen. Kennedy's campaign manager, Michael L. Kennedy '80 (another son of Robert Kennedy) took to the microphone to remind the crowd that the party was for the senator...
Although President Mandela has made it clear that his government will respect the past, that it needs to be remembered in order to remind South Africans of their long and bitter road to democracy, this deference has not been extended to certain symbolic trappings of the old order. At the opening of Parliament last week, a ceremonial golden mace embellished with a frieze of circled ox wagons -- symbolic of the struggle of Afrikaner nationalists -- was conspicuously absent. An official muttered something about "a technical problem," though others think it will not be long before the mace, along with other totems...
...America that was more dignified, more private, an America in which standards were higher and clearer and elegance meant something, a time when elegance was a kind of statement, a way of dressing up the world, and so a generous act. She had manners, the kind that remind us that manners spring from a certain moral view -- that you do tribute to the world and the people in it by being kind and showing respect, by sending the note and the flowers, by being loyal, and cheering a friend. She was a living reminder in the age of Oprah that...
...sure about the bad-taste rule as it applies to styles of government, except in the way that it points to a sometimes desirable elegance of leaderly thought, or might remind Americans of a President long ago who designed his own house at Monticello...