Word: acte
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Usually I don't have to. Sometimes people want to act like they don't know...
...OCCUPATION: singer/starlet impersonator BEST PUNCH: Quit as Manson's opening act over "production problems," but early in the tour stormed off stage after a hostile greeting from Manson fans and told an L.A. audience Manson was "evil...
...only one of many options available to would-be parents--from using frozen embryos and surrogate mothers to picking the number, sex and genes of their babies. These innovations have freed women from the tyranny of their biological clock, triggered an explosion of multiple births, even made the sex act irrelevant in conception--all the while setting the stage for still more unsettling spectacles to come, such as human cloning...
Never before had an economic theory been so dramatically tested. Even granted the special circumstances of war mobilization, it seemed to work exactly as Keynes predicted. The grand experiment even won over many Republicans. America's Employment Act of 1946--the year Keynes died--codified the new wisdom, making it "the continuing policy and responsibility of the Federal Government ...to promote maximum employment, production, and purchasing power...
Wittgenstein set out in particular to subvert the seductive theories about mind and consciousness that philosophers since Descartes had puzzled and battled over. Again and again in Philosophical Investigations, he catches his interlocutors in the act of being suckered by their overconfident intuitions about what their words mean--what their words must mean, they think--when they talk about what's going on in their own minds. As he says, "The decisive moment in the conjuring trick has been made, and it was the very one that we thought quite innocent." (Today's neuroscientists fall into these same traps with...