Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rebound, they were still not assured of possession. Kinneen turned the act of tying up the enemy and forcing a jump ball into an art form. On the defensive end of the floor, few could harass an opposing guard better than Kinneen. Kelly Kinneen is a powerful argument for including heart as a statistical category...
...just a little money, and it does all sorts of wonderful things: It makes you feel generous; it makes Harvard smile upon you; it gets your soliciting roommate off your back; and it convinces old, rich people to give lots of their money to Harvard. And the most convincing argument is the subversive one--giving makes Harvard more receptive to your complaints and suggestions. After all, who in University Hall is going to listen to a non-donor? University officials and politicians have that in common...
...real. The sexual revolution, goes the argument, has been a curse for women. Before girls had the power, their modest ways set the rules of the game: to pursue meant to woo, and to bed meant to wed. Sexual modesty fostered not only a more civil society but also a sexier world. A glimpse of a knee, the graze of a shoulder sent shivers. Delicious! But now women are encouraged to be like men, and what a mess it is. The refined has been replaced by the vulgar, and sex has become just the thing you do on the third...
Conservatives--and even some feminists--have been making the argument for years, most recently in books like What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us by Danielle Crittenden. But it's Wendy Shalit's debut book, A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue (Free Press), that is currently bubbling in the public debate. The book has earned the neoconservative author an interview by Katie Couric on the Today show and inspired heated online debate, as well as a drubbing from many across the feminist spectrum...
...police to protect them, they let other people know that they can defend themselves with overwhelming force, which these days means having a gun and being willing to use it." The inflated sense of confidence that packing a gun engenders, especially in young men, can easily escalate a petty argument into a fatal confrontation. Step on somebody's shoes, and you could wind up dead...