Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...couple of truisms have been established about George Bush since the election. One is that you've been liberated, that you're no longer the shackled George Bush of the vice presidency who was unable to speak his mind. Is that correct...
...artist has ever been so eloquent about his society, or seemed so eager to speak beyond the grave to ours, as Francisco Goya (1746-1828). The idea of a universal painter, capable of addressing humanity in general rather than this or that time and culture in particular, may be a pious fiction, but Goya comes as close to fulfilling it as anyone has ever done. We see his face pressed to the glass of our terrible century, mouthing to make his warnings understood...
...harsher measures come from the Jewish settlers in the territories, who have increasingly become the main target of Palestinian stones. For months the 70,000 settlers, who claim the West Bank as their biblical right, have complained that the army is failing to protect them. When Shamir started to speak at a memorial service this month for two Israeli victims of the intifadeh, mourners yelled, "You are doing nothing!" Nor did the new battle order satisfy the settlers, who have demanded such extreme reprisals as shooting all stone throwers on sight. "For them ((the Palestinians)) it's a festival...
Brown is able to speak in both black and white. At the Democratic Convention, after he and Paul Brountas settled most of the disputes between Jackson and Michael Dukakis, the four men gathered for a breakfast summit. One issue defied resolution: the nature of the "partnership" that Jackson was demanding. Finally Brown explained it as a language gap. Dukakis and Brountas interpreted partnership as if they were discussing a law firm. For Jackson, the term implied common goals and respect. Brown, a partner in one of Washington's most powerful law firms who began his career as an organizer with...
...talk around campus is of a different sort. Students speak of rushing and passing in terms of "rushing" to the library and hoping to "pass" the course...