Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could use some hit-and-run tactics to bring the issue of exclusivity to the forefront of public debate; activists could occupy a final club building and declare it the People's House." Whether this is an attempt at satire is indeterminable. One thing is certain, however; those who seem bent on either closing the final clubs or forcing them to admit women and minorities are attacking the foundations of the democratic ideals they want to protect...
...issue is a democratic one. Whether the clubs ought to exist is one thing; whether or not they are "good" is another one altogether. It must seem a little ridiculous that organizations such as the KKK, the Spartacists, and finals clubs can all hide under the shield of democracy when they are so undemocratic, but that is part of what we sacrifice...
...critique of affectlessness. Thus his work is credited with exposing what it merely embodies. This is a no-lose situation, under which the artist is held to be interesting for what he does not say. "Salle's images," remarks the show's curator, Janet Kardon, in the catalog, "often seem directed away from us, as if we were not the right audience." Lovers of serious painting can only agree...
...problems, Aquino does not seem to be in any immediate danger. In the peculiar logic of Philippine politics, the recent maelstrom may even boost the President's standing in this week's constitutional balloting. "If she loses," said Taxi Driver Ramon Iglesias last week, "I'm afraid there will be a civil war." For that reason alone, Iglesias is voting...
...also registers the everyday details of a nation's collective suicide: people are said to be feasting on corpses; ten-year-olds take their own lives; in a single paragraph May laconically records the deaths of three of his siblings. Some of these horrors may seem almost routine to those who have seen the film The Killing Fields or read Molyda Szymusiak's The Stones Cry Out, a recently published memoir that covers much the same killing ground. Yet May is unusually sensitive to the monstrous ironies of a world turned inside out. While some peasants starved, others, suddenly allowed...