Word: repressing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Leticia M. Sanchez '98 caught a glimpse of President Clinton on Tuesday, the Lowell House English concentrator said she could not repress her excitement...
Morris couldn't stomach Penn's new prominence. And Penn couldn't stomach Morris. From the start, the strategist had sought to repress Penn, and Penn had come to resent Morris' taking credit for his values ideas. But Morris couldn't contain Penn. Inside the White House, Penn developed a reputation as "the consultant who's not radioactive," as Stephanopoulos put it. Penn set up a jury-rigged workspace in a walk-in closet in Sosnik's West Wing basement office. This triggered Morris' paranoia, and when Penn had a one-on-one meeting with Clinton in the Oval Office...
...Goleman's analysis, self-awareness is perhaps the most crucial ability because it allows us to exercise some self-control. The idea is not to repress feeling (the reaction that has made psychoanalysts rich) but rather to do what Aristotle considered the hard work of the will. "Anyone can become angry--that is easy," he wrote in the Nicomachean Ethics. "But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way--this is not easy...
...government has a history of supporting nations that blatantly disregard the human rights of their citizens. From Chile to Greece to Indonesia, we have provided military aid to governments that crush political dissent and brutally repress populist movements. All across the globe, American-made tear gas and riot-control vehicles have been used to disperse peaceful demonstrations. American made rifles, explosives and tank have been accessory to the murder of innocent people who dare to criticize their governments and to the ousting of democratically elected officials. Clinton's new policy would jeopardize the freedom and safety of dissidents and threaten...
...voice over continues as she dresses, paints her nails, applies her lipstick. Finally she looks at the camera and says with her accent, "Last year I was a man." As sad as it is, it is hard to repress the laughter. She appears throughout the film, telling her story which, because it is so sad, juxtaposes oddly with some of the other portraits and grows tiresome...