Word: betraying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sense of community than in the way Benton groups its citizens, first at a wake, then at a dance. At another moment, a pair of guilty lovers (Ed Harris and Amy Madigan), emblematic of the dissatisfactions that dare not speak their name in all the earth's Waxahachies, betray themselves to his wife (Lindsay Grouse) by the way they handle a deck of cards in a rummy game. Best of all is the Communion service that climaxes the movie, where, with amazing grace, Benton moves almost imperceptibly from reality to fantasy in order to find for his people...
Nevertheless, murmurs among some group members betray a harsher view of Harvard's Black hiring record. Some hint that it was the University "foot dragging" that purred them to action, and the principal success of the group that many members city private is the shift of discussion on affirmative action from the realm of governmentally imposed technicalities to that of pragmatic planning...
...faith and to Christian living produced by forms of liberation theology that uncritically borrow Marxist ideas." It declares that Marxism holds out the false hope that a revolutionary society will be a just one, while itself creating new forms of oppression. Those who aid such revolutions, it says, "betray the very poor they mean to help." The Vatican warns that radical theologians, by building Christian teaching around Marxist ideas like class struggle, distort the Bible, undercut morality and create divisions within the church...
...fact, this is one of the most powerful and subtle tools Piercy uses to shape her heroine, who otherwise would be a very ordinary woman. But Daria's constant need for things to be in their place, for details to be correct and manageable and solid, betray her very fragile sense of self, her modernist need to be in control of the little things. In its better moments, this characterization is reminiscent of Mrs. Dalloway in its emphasis on the details that no one else would need to notice, that seem to take on mythic proportions in such an acutely...
...faculty dating from the New Deal era set the stage for potential conflicts, but the first serious test case came in the 1950s with the rise of McCarthyism. Then, Harvard was forced to defend political actions on the part of some of its faculty lest its silence tacitly betray them. Time and some thoughtful action resolved the immediate crisis during that Cold War era, but the issue of University tolerance of faculty activism remains both relevant and divisive...