Word: acceptant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stranger pitching a plan I couldn't cooperate with, to his credit the guy really made it sound appealing. When he finally looked up at me, expecting a little resistance but eventual capitulation, I was stuck. Did I ever say no to Secret Santa? Didn't I not happily accept miniature bodies of suspiciously perfumed bubble bath, oversized faux-gold earrings and Santa Clause candle-holders with a smile pasted across my face? As he pushed the form across the table, I could only think of my grandmother opening the mailbox and looking at a similar set of blanks...
...sure that we do not hurt the workers we are trying to help? What if clothing workers in a particular country or region, given the choice, would prefer not to see us terminate licenses that might put them out of jobs? While we should not passively accept a status quo, we must avoid the mistake of assuming that we know better than workers what is best for them. This information must come from the workers or their representatives, and we should be very careful to see that it is accurate and reliable. It is one thing to support workers...
These days few ethical tenets go unchallenged by a world increasingly suspicious of absolutes. Yet in contemporary Western culture, almost everyone from the most progressive to the most conservative, is willing to accept that romantic love for another person is an absolute good capable of redeeming even the most lost of souls. I find it inexplicable that a culture willing to do away with so many reasonable and necessary rules of moral behavior should have picked romantic love as its one unquestioned value. Not only does the value derive from a conception that is purely Western and relatively recent...
...days that I think I will never have an affair with a married man again, in large part because of how much pain it causes everybody involved. But a larger part of that is because of how damaging it is for me. And it is morally wrong. And I accept and I respect that it's more morally wrong to some people than it has been for me. But I will never do it again...
...make this admission with confidence. I accept my tendency to bumble with words and feel inclined to defend my often incoherent speech. I have no pretensions about my way of speaking. It is not that my thoughts are too complex to articulate, nor is my soul profaned in base expression--at Harvard I have simply developed a distaste for the "stylized-explicit," precision vocabulary that evades making any point at all. Section superstars, masters of this technique, have essentially unlocked the secret of the horoscope--by expressing generic thoughts with seemingly specific words, they magically persuade all those willing. While...