Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hitlernostalgie," as German newspapers have named it, is evident throughout the country. Historians, politicians and average citizens believe it time to review Hitler's contribution to their culture, and many seem to suspect the contribution was a positive...
...across the Laikipia Plateau, and the baboons straggle in from their day's browsings among the acacia flowers. They sit and socialize on the lower rocks of their high kopje, grooming one another with a sweet absorption, playing with their babies. Like almost everyone and everything in Africa, they seem profoundly tribal. Another troop of baboons arrives, 100 yards away, and each tribe stares at the other with a nervous intensity across the lovely evening light...
...advocates argue that a universal national-service program has transcendent benefits for the nation as a whole. "The real advantage of national service is not to the young," says Moskos. "The fundamental benefit is to society itself in reinstating its sense of comity, community and service that we all seem to have lost...
Near the end, Margery meets her friend Johnson and her enemy Disney in an Orlando drugstore, and they all have lunch: "It was an odd coincidence, she realized, that she and Walt Disney and Howard Johnson were human beings." It will not seem odd to readers of The Propheteers that legends can live and breathe in a gentle fable as fabulous as the truth...
Television programs for children seem to divide neatly into two mutually exclusive categories: the shows kids watch and the shows they ought to watch. In the first group are the platoons of super-heroes, Smurfs and toy-store transplants that fill the dial on Saturday mornings and weekday afternoons. In the second are those earnest after-school specials and occasional PBS offerings praised by critics and parents but seldom watched by more than a fraction of the youngsters who crowd in front of the set for He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. Square...