Word: enrichment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...himself an immigrant, having come from Switzerland at the age of six. "This project has reminded me of what makes America unique," he says. "No other country has the courage to let its demographic mix change so quickly, and to bet that doing so will continue to enrich...
...does not. Cuba's best and most famous poet now talks as if he could be the proud father of all his 726,000 countrymen residing in South Florida. "The U.S. is the seventh-largest Spanish-speaking nation in terms of population," he says, "and I think that will enrich the country. The present and the future of the U.S. are here...
...spirit of assimilation, Hollywood has thrived by embracing those immigrants who would enrich it. Today one need look no further than the awards shows, or the bottom line, to spot the crucial contributions of foreign-born filmmakers to the Hollywood movie. On Oscar night this spring, Czech-born Milos Forman (see box) walked away with a best-director statuette for his work on the laurel-laden Amadeus. This year's first surprise hit, Witness, was directed by Australian Peter Weir; this summer's runaway "Gook" buster, Rambo: First Blood Part II, was helmed by the Greek immigrant George Pan Cosmatos...
Another example of that institutionalized discrimination came at the Baccalaureate Address of the Class of 1960, Charlene Horn Posner of Illinois remembers. "The speaker told us that when we were up to our elbows in diapers and dishes, it would enrich us to have read Anna Karenina," Posner says...
...Harvard could do more to help run Harvard. And many perhaps even most. Harvard students could do more to improve that world in which they live, a world which by anyone's estimate not the best that is could be. But those of us who are working to enrich life in eastern Massachusetts do not deserve to be reckoned less than those who are protesting in soliders with Black South Africans, of going to jail for Central Americans, writing letters for Russian Jews, or collecting for the hungry in Europia. We've as "fired up" as they...