Word: somethingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mostly the fine ensemble of young actors who are members of the film's eponymous secret society (notably Robert Sean Leonard and Ethan Hawke) grope with energetic sobriety toward an idea that Keating keeps putting to them every way he can. It is this: the business of education is not...
Frankly, I don't understand Bush. If he thinks we are going to get a neo- Stalinist successor to Gorbachev, how much better it would be for that successor to have far fewer weapons. I do not think he is waiting around for Gorbachev to be overthrown by students the...
A. To some degree, yes. We never were nearly so successful. We were trying to stop a policy and didn't succeed. We raised consciousness, but we didn't stop the war. We stopped its further escalation. We stopped the further American commitment. Nor did we change sufficient minds and...
"Health problems have become a major concern. Guo Changshou, a 23-year-old medical student, said that virtually all the protesters had some kind of illness: 'Most have colds or diarrhea, but we have had cases of hepatitis.' In fact, it is something of a miracle that there isn't...
But something quite extraordinary is happening. The people who live under Communism are rising up and asserting themselves against the party. In China they have done so in defiance of their rulers. In the Soviet Union they are doing so with the help of their leader. While his Chinese counterparts...