Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have known them much too long to believe such a thing. Nevertheless, their reservations about loading a department with specialists in flowers that bloom in the spring and fade in the summer seem to me to do them credit. The back offices of history departments which did not resist pressure to be up-to-date are now full of such worthless rubbish, which by law they must keep until death do them part. J.H. Hexter Professor of History Director Center for the History of Freedom Washington Univeristy in St. Louis
...press conference, "White voters have made their position clear. They support the state of emergency. They support the detention of thousands of children without trial, and they support the actions of the security forces." All that was left for opponents of the government to do, he continued, was to resist "as strongly as we can." Almost as vehement in his criticism of the election results was Chief Minister Buthelezi of the KwaZulu homeland, who is often described as the country's leading black moderate. He declared, "I am totally appalled at what happened, and I see a long, hard, costly...
...satirically too. But May is a writer of scripts that are all sneaky asides, no obvious zingers allowed. She is not one to let her voice be drowned out by either a lot of exploding hardware or the buzz about Ishtar's delays and cost overruns. One finally cannot resist warming to a movie in which people are astonished to find out that Gaddafi is the name of a man not a country but are strangely gratified to learn that vultures, like tyro songwriters, work "on spec." And that contains, above all, a golden trashery of dreadful pop lyrics ("There...
...version is in some ways among the best. One contemplated its arrival with glumness and rancor, and one was wrong. It is still a show with marked ideological prejudices. Clearly, the Whitney curators resist realist painting, and their promotion of media-based conceptual imagery over more directly pictorial forms of intelligence verges on intellectual snobbery (for example, Richard Prince's boringly generic reflections on photo reproduction, or Bruce Nauman's neon pieces, or Barbara Kruger's snootily virtuous samplers bearing such commonplaces as I SHOP THEREFORE I AM). But no one could accuse it of the air-headedness that marked...
...French have even more to fear from the revelations or digressions of their special prisoner. Ever since Marcel Ophuls's documentary The Sorrow and the Pity unreeled in Europe and America, people have stopped believing in the myth that France united to resist the occupying forces. On the contrary, France under Petain fully collaborated with Hitler's Germany. It handed its Jews over to the Nazi executioners -- 76,000 were deported, few came back. French militia competed with the Gestapo for efficiency. French police organized the roundups. Will the nation be forced to remember its sins? Or will its citizens...