Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...America was right for today: Alexander Hamilton's--he saw a big economy guided by self-interest and a muscular national government--or Thomas Jefferson's--he championed responsibility to society and mistrusted taking too much power away from individuals and their communities. Hamilton seemed to be carrying the argument, until Harvard professor Michael Sandel happened to notice whose portrait hung on the dimly lit wall of the Blue Room and whose marble memorial cast a moonlike glow across the Ellipse. Yes, Sandel said, Hamilton's influence endures in the profit-driven society that Hamilton helped shape...
...argument had merit--not least because that senior citizen was Glenn. The seven Mercury astronauts were perhaps the most exhaustively studied human beings in history, with medical dossiers going back to the 1950s. Such documentation would provide a priceless baseline of data if anyone cared to study the same subjects four decades later. Two of the seven astronauts have died, and four have long since got the foolishness of space travel out of their heads. Only Glenn was available to make the trip, and two years after he offered his services, Goldin bit. "This is a signal that...
...argument's climax, the senior editor threw a hot cup of coffee at the junior editor; luckily, the cup of coffee just missed the junior editor's head and landed on the keyboard instead...
...argument...isn't assimilationist at all...[but] music is a personal thing. Everyone feels they can make a commentary on music, because everyone has experience in it, as opposed to poetry or literature," Radano says, noting that the beauty of "black music" is that it is paradoxically the very same vehicle that enables racial transgression...
...situation back to where it was in November, except that diplomacy will have been shown to have failed. "There's a massing of military force in the Gulf right now, enough to make Saddam blink," says Dowell. "If he doesn't back down, there will be a strong argument for using...