Word: towards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...event passed out pamphlets with excerpts of some of Mann's speeches to further show Mann's commitment to social justice. "I can see my life as pre-AIDS and since AIDS. What a journey! It seems to me...that the essential character of this journey is toward that personal discovery which is the real basis of wider tolerance, understanding and respect for others," Mann said in a 1996 speech...
...going forward too fast, into wedges that trap them, rivers that drown them and mazes that defeat them until they give up or starve. The journey to what Bill Clinton called the "rock-bottom truth" feels now like a headlong descent, a process no one can control, toward resolutions no one can assure. There are Republicans looking for treasure down here--political power embedded for years to come. And there are Democrats looking for someone to blame. But for the rest of us, there is too little light, too little air, no compass, no ropes: this is not a spectator...
...been catering toward a younger clientele, but we're trying not to alienate our traditional customers," said a Brooks sales associate...
Sadly, that has not been a response I've enjoyed often here at Harvard. In fact, it would not be so far from the truth to describe the unspoken attitude toward religion in general, and Christianity in particular, as respectfully hostile. Indeed, it is with some apprehension and not a little awkwardness that I mention the "r" word at all, in any of its forms or guises. I have, of course, found ways of expressing my native Catholicism. I attend St. Paul's student Mass nearly every Sunday, abstain from eating meat during Lent, wear an ashen cross...
Eisenhower entreated Americans to reject apathy, saying, "My biggest disappointment is that we haven't expressed more sympathy and empathy here in the West toward this impossible situation...