Word: acceptability
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...larger Germany with a larger role in the economic and political life of Europe, perhaps eventually with its own nuclear arsenal. The same anxiety motivates Czechoslovakia's playwright-President Vaclav Havel, Poland's Solidarity Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki and many politicians in Western Europe. If they accept Bush's idea of NATO uber alles, it will be as a hedge against the resurgence of a malevolent Deutschland. But will the government and citizens of a unified Germany accept that idea? Will they want to be forever, or even for long, members of an alliance whose purpose, unstated but unmistakable...
...arrival of a politically more assertive Germany is a reality that the rest of the world must also take in stride. Germans are less apologetic and less willing to accept international tutelage than they used to be, which comes as something of a shock to others. Yet Germans could do more to ease the transition. "Little things add up," said Angelika Volle of the German Society for Foreign Affairs in Bonn. "What Germany needs right now is Fingerspitzengefuhl, a delicate, tactful approach...
...first hints of that design will show up in the two-plus-four talks. Moscow has already indicated some of its demands: removal of all nuclear weapons from Germany, tight limitations on German armed forces, departure of all foreign troops over several years. Bonn is willing to accept most of those requirements in the interest of unification, but has not agreed to the withdrawal of allied troops. If it does, and the last 195,000 Americans from the Central Front go home, it could spell the end of NATO...
...cartoons and video games used as models, there is a lot of punching and shooting but very little emphasis on the pain such actions can cause. Thus children lose touch with the consequences of violence. And when they do hurt someone else in their imitative battles, they may not accept responsibility. "They can injure another child and say, 'I didn't do it. He- Man did it,' " says Carlsson-Paige, an associate professor of education at Lesley College in Cambridge, Mass...
...civil, smile, give a dime or two, say hello; by all means. But do not accept the state of homelessness as a given in the analysis of the "correct" attitude toward our homeless neighbors. That is where not only "incredible insensitivity" but injustice lies. Jennifer Mayher '93 Co-chair, Committee on the Homeless Phillips Brooks House Association