Word: revealed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gomes not revealed my own previous consideration of humility as a virtue to be nothing more but a prejudice cloaked in a pretended authority, I might have thought him to reveal here something of temerity; but liberated from these credulous preconceptions, I instead rejoice that what I now recognize as genuine Christian liberty has at last found a true apostle here at Harvard...
...year, Gibson Greetings began marketing a line of cards featuring Armstrong's likable Joe and Marcy. Barbara Brandon is discussing plans with manufacturers to put her characters' faces on coffee mugs and T shirts. "Comic strips are the best visual barometer of the culture," says comics historian Jones. "They reveal the pulse and the heartbeat of what the country is about." Increasingly, the beat has some soul...
...HOMECOMING. A quarter-century's passage and a second-rate Broadway revival reveal that what seemed scary, mysterious and darkly funny in Harold Pinter's signature work was mostly just implausible. The one strong performance, by Roy Dotrice as a chortling gutter patriarch, lacks the ferocity of Paul Rogers in the original...
Elsewhere, Movie describes how a film can reveal truths about society. David Bradley's offers a chilling account of watching Birth of A Nation twice while attending the University of Pennsylvania as one of the few Black students on campus. The experience of seeing the movie first as a sideshow at a fraternity party, then lauded as a work of art at a campus film festival alerts Bradley to the general indifference most white society felt to blatant racism...
...infrastructure -- it is ironic that some of the fiercest battles revolve around largely symbolic issues. Much of the tension arises from misunderstandings rooted in the clash of cultures. These days it is impossible even to formulate stereotypes about Asians or Hispanics, because those categories conceal much more than they reveal. Koreans and Japanese continue to deride one another; Peruvians resent being mistaken for Mexicans. The largest Asian group is not the Japanese or the Chinese but the Filipinos, who have different traditions...