Word: understood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there was no such thing as a Goldwaterite. There was only Goldwater, sui generis. When the conservative movement coalesced around his candidacy, in the early '60s, conservatives still called themselves individualists, and he understood better than they did that a movement of individualists was an oxymoron. He remained an individualist, and the movement passed him by. In his last years his libertarianism hardened. He came out for gay rights, including in the military, and opposed controls on abortion. When Republicans attacked President Clinton about Whitewater, Goldwater told them to "get off his back and let him govern...
...elegiac), and his meditation on consciousness and its aridities, reclaimed for American poetry a terrain of close observation and complex intelligence that had seemed lost. The heartbreak under the poised irony of Eliot's work was not lost on his audience, who suddenly felt that in understanding Eliot, they understood themselves...
...emphasized there are many gay and lesbian people who live ordinary lives and increasingly want it to be understood that most are not "professionally" gay and lesbian, but rather "part of every facet of American life in education, in churches, government, the legal system and business...
...Understand that when we stand beforeChristians and sing to Christ with an air ofapathy, we could be understood as not takingChristianity seriously," read the message, whichwas provided to The Crimson by a member of thegroup. "Understand that when we go before a blackchurch or a black elementary school and say we'reabout to sing gospel with nearly half our memberswhite, we immediately bear the burden of proof...
Even Radcliffe administrators say theirinstitution's true nature is ill-understood...