Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...grateful that the components of this phase of his work have at last been reunited. Matisse was a mature painter of 42 when he went to Morocco, but what he learned from the trip struck to the very root of his development as an artist. He was tempted to make a third trip but never...
...joyous reception of Mandela was also a rite of self-congratulation for the American civil rights activists who have used the struggle in South Africa as a rallying cry. Such leaders had started to make connections with the battle against apartheid long ago. The American Committee on Africa, the first antiapartheid organization in the U.S., was created in 1953. But it was during the 1980s that civil rights activists discovered in the fight to free Mandela an effort they could throw themselves into with gusto -- and little moral ambiguity...
...realities of day-to-day political struggle have cut into his popularity at home, even among those whose aspirations he has spent half a lifetime representing. Were he to become the first elected black leader of postapartheid South Africa, the resulting immersion in the messy doings of government could make things still more trying for him. Knowing that he remains a hero in America could help to sustain him if those difficult days ever come...
Once the last American trip-wire battalion is gone, Germany will feel liberated in some respects but vulnerable in others. Then what? Will the government in Bonn -- or perhaps by then Berlin -- ask for help from Britain and France, which have their own independent nuclear deterrents? German pride would make that expedient unattractive...
...helping me revise our strategic plan, and they'll be coming along on a visit to our Amsterdam office next month." Brazilian Mauro Vaisman, a journalism major at the University of Missouri-Columbia, is researching international news stories. Says he: "I thought I would come here and maybe make coffee. But from my first day I have been treated like a member of the family and have been given a lot of responsibility. This place is a school! I am learning every second." Vaisman has just discovered one reason we all love journalism: the lifelong education it offers. No wonder...