Word: traced
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Notwithstanding the faking, let it be clear that the East represented in the main dining room of Dudley Hall was a pathetic sellout--it was not India. It wasn't the East. The clothes had no trace of the complex and rich heritage which marks India. And not even the most audacious of cultural con-artists can claim to find any trace of the cultural roots of the Afghani and Iranian refugees who purportedly handcrafted the convoluted designs. I find it difficult to believe (a doubt which some of my friends from Delhi confirm) that even the elite in Delhi...
...Recently you warned that the country may be sliding toward fascism. That's pretty strong stuff. Do you see any trace of repression in our present government...
...closed opposition newspapers, capriciously fired government officials and seized control of most ministries. To quiet the republic's balking minorities -- Armenians, Abkhasians and Kurds, as well as the increasingly restless Ossetians and Adzharis -- he has suggested that qualification for Georgian citizenship should be based on family lines that trace back to 1801, the year Georgia became part of czarist Russia. He has even stated that mixed marriages threaten the purity of the Georgian race...
...Allis is a firm believer in public schools and is adamant that their problems won't be solved purely by the marketplace mentality toward education that is now in vogue. "Children are not widgets, and the less successful cannot be discarded like failed businesses," he says, not without a trace of anger. "On the other hand, the educational establishment in this country needs to be sandblasted out of its torpor." Sam has never had a high tolerance for torpor, and we like that...
...hewn American version of the Soviet bear, who would look equally at home in overcoat and shapka on the Kremlin reviewing stand with Brezhnev (his favorite Soviet) or in a gimmie-cap at a Fourth of July picnic in Des Moines. He mixes an earthy Midwest charm with a trace of Finnish ancestry ("yahs" sprinkle his speech), which makes it difficult to fathom his lingering bad-guy notoriety. But behind the affable grin lie eyes cold and calculating. Perhaps it is this paradox -- the genial great-grandfather and steely communist chieftain rolled into one -- that has made...