Word: upliftment
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Producers for the newer talk shows insist they too are trying to be helpful, not exploitative. Usually, however, the uplift consists of simply a few bromides from the host ("Do two wrongs make a right?" Ricki likes to say) and some facile advice from a psychologist or other "expert" brought on for a few minutes at the end of the show...
This long-haul task--defined in activist uplift terms, not cathartic terms of Afro-Romanticism--is, of course, less symbolically stirring and solidaristically glamorous than your Kwanzaa Rituals celebration proposal, that's for certain. But from my vantage point as a pragmatic activist and leftist member of the Black intelligentsia, I can say without fear of contradiction that Rev. Rivers's kind of humanistic and activist outreach program will produce greater modern transformation and benefits for our massive Black poor population (32 percent of Black households, compared to 29 percent of Latino households) and 15 percent of white households...
...closing, we would like to reiterate that the mission of the Harvard-Radcliffe Black Students Association is to present intellectual discourse that will serve not only to uplift, empower and enlighten the Black community, but the greater Harvard community as well. Alison L. Moore...
...Bill Clinton is right to talk about family values," Quayle told the Commonwealth Club of California, tipping his hat. Clinton's gesture, in his address to the National Baptist Convention, was more oblique, but he firmly agreed with the proposition that politicians should use the bully pulpit to uplift the morals and improve the behavior of the citizenry...
...from disaster to disaster as despotic communism devours its own and Germany attacks and destroys millions more. Members of the Gradov family, led by Dr. Boris Nikitovich, make their separate ways through history. Aksyonov impressively spreads out a panorama of suffering, but he overlays it with shameless melodrama, unconvincing uplift and grotesque humor. Readers who sling their hammock, move their samovar onto their veranda and settle down for an old-fashioned summer read may be distracted by a narrative farrago that includes a scene in which Dr. Gradov nearly wins the Order of Lenin for giving Stalin an emergency enema...