Word: sharpened
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cuts into" a swimming lump" an unborn fawn. The boatman in "A Room Forever" knows that he is physically hurting the young girl, "a kid playing whose, "who offers herself to him, but takes her just the same. Brutality isn't used for cheap thrills, though, but rather to sharpen the reader's awareness that injury and cruelly are facts of life. The moments show more clearly how the characters bear pain and the problems of conscience that come from causing...
...philosophical issue in registration. Traditionally, for those who object to military service on such grounds, registration has been the first step to Selective Service classification as a conscientious objector. For those who failed to register because of a genuine commitment of conscience, this latest federal measure should serve to sharpen the moral issue of conscription--after all, an integral part of civil disobedience is acknowledgement of a violation of the law, and free acceptance of punishment for that violation...
...past few presidencies. What has saved it until recently from the acrimony accorded previous Administrations was Reagan's amiability-an arm's length amiability, to be sure-with the press. Increasingly, Reagan's genetic optimism is contradicted by the facts. The reporters' questions sharpen; his replies fail to assuage...
There were other similarities. As in Stalin's last years, Kremlin iconographers labored to hide the ravages of age and disease. His portraits were meticulously airbrushed to darken his gray hair, to erase his wrinkles, to sharpen his jawline. Sound engineers who monitored his broadcasts used electronic magic to mask his slurred speech, possibly the result of a stroke. The disguises fell through when Brezhnev was placed in the harsh glare of cameras that could not be controlled by party discipline. At his meeting with President Carter in Vienna in June 1979, he stumbled and nearly fell while descending...
Whatever these youngsters make of their computer experiences, they will surely confront the world differently from their BILL of PIERCE ease. Many parents. The precise, orderly steps of logic required to use and program the machines promise to shape-and sharpen-the thought processes of the computer generation. Indeed, the youngsters playing all those strategy games are doing precisely what corporations do when they plan to launch a new product or what military leaders do when they devise strategies to confront a potential...