Word: backwardness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...them to affect our culinary options. There are good reasons to vote "yes" on the referendum, but probably very few voted on such principled convictions. Instead, the referendum recorded amazing apathy for issues of social justice, coupled with a favorable opinion of grapes. But given the sad step backward signaled by last Wednesday's vote, if the dining halls serve grapes, those of us who voted against them should not eat them. We cannot hope to effectively pressure our peers not to eat them. We cannot hope to effectively pressure our peers not to eat them because most...
According to New York Times columnist (and former Crimson executive) Anthony Lewis '48, he is pointing America "backward toward economic and political disaster." He is trying to scale back the policies that have given us prosperity. He wants to end American leadership in the global economy...
...Spanish Jew Moses de Leon. Superficially, the book was a mystical novel, a kind of Celestine Prophecy precursor. But initiates knew better. Shrouded in its story lines were the keys to unlock the Hebrew Bible--and hence all existence. Whereas standard rabbinic Judaism sometimes seems to look backward to God's most intimate interactions with his chosen people and forward to a Messiah, Kabbalah stresses the Deity's presence as immediate at all times: an ongoing surge of light or energy communicated from the Unknowable to the material world via a series of 10 divine emanations, or sephirot. By studying...
...their nursery of guavas, peppermint and poinsettias. On a dilapidated bamboo bench, Faustina Nunez told the First Lady in Spanish of the dream they had also harvested from the soil. "Our community could see we were a society of strong-willed women, and we were not going to step backward," Nunez said. For Hillary and her generation, that is a yearning that needs no translation...
...help the sickest patients. "In America," he says, "if a doctor doesn't do anything and the patient dies, it's called a natural death. But if the doctor tries to do something to save that person and he dies, the doctor gets blamed for the death. That's backward thinking." The sickest patients excite Batista most because, he says, "they are the ones I can help the most...