Word: suppressing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...still pleasing to the eye. All the charm of these works is gone in the tiny gallery, where the twelve paintings and prints are presented in sharp contrast to the unforgiving whiteness of the walls. They are now subjected to the cold eye of the observer, who must suppress imagination and base interpretation solely on the abundant text provided. The painting loses its sense of wonder and mystery and becomes a specimen to be looked at and not an entity to be explored and conversed with...
...fateful decision. Luther's tortured soul, which attached itself to new ideas with a fervor that seems strikingly modern, turned in a decade's time against the institution he had vowed to serve and created one of history's greatest religious splinter groups. Rome wanted to suppress his ideas, but Luther quickly found that the printing press could be used as a sort of technological megaphone--printing copies of his Ninety-Five Theses faster than they could be gathered up and destroyed...
...eighth-graders in a classroom in New York City's Spanish Harlem can barely suppress their giggles. "You are sitting on a stalled, crowded bus," their teacher tells them. "Start up a conversation." Esther, petite and pony-tailed, begins. "Well, this bus is really crowded!" "Yeah," says Luis. "I can't wait to get outta here--I'm gonna suffocate." Pause. Esther: "Nice day, isn't it? Where are you going?" Luis: "To take my girlfriend to the movies." Esther: "I have a date too." Painful pause. Luis: "The bus is certainly...stopped." The class cracks...
...arguing that we hide behind a veil sewn of denial and artificial, ignorance-induced bliss, or, worse yet, suppress technological advances towards a fuller understanding of human beings because we are scared of what truths may be uncovered. I am, instead, cautioning a naive belief in the reducibility of infinitely complex and intricately multi-determined people to a simple equation and a string of letters...
...Rwanda and Burundi took different paths. In 1959 Rwandan Hutu launched a murderous uprising and forced the creation of a majority-controlled republic, which survived until 1994. In Burundi, by contrast, the Tutsi remained in control. Both armies were dominated by the ruling tribe and did not hesitate to suppress uprisings by the opposing ethnic group. Peasant revolts in Burundi in 1965, 1972 and 1988 were ruthlessly put down, in one case leading to the loss of 200,000 lives...