Word: akin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...straight wife and gay lover both cast him aside. Politically, Angels preaches to the choir, celebrating gay anger and self-righteousness (to gleeful whoops from the audience) rather than explaining gay angst to the uninitiated. The author and the delighted spectators reflect an evolution in attitude akin to what happened among blacks and women: one generation sought empathy; the next demanded justice; the generation equivalent to Kushner's just flat-out asserted equality and spurned any more debate...
...many sporting events, wearing enemy colors is akin to suicide. But Sheronas survived, and the mystique of The Game left its mark on the Yale captain...
Muhammad's logic is akin to claiming that because you have Jewish friends, you couldn't possibly be anti-Semitic. And that's a crock...
...team mired in a scoring slump, three goals were akin to a nuclear explosion. Junior Sarah Downing, junior Amy Belisle and freshman Maureen O'Brien all scored for the Crimson...
This year, things are different. Coaching legend Mark Duffner has left to ride the Division I-A Tulane Green Wave and Holy Cross has stopped awarding athletic scholarships--a combination akin to firing both barrels of a shotgun at the football team. It's hurting. (Exhibit A: Yale...