Word: bawl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...audience is like the helpless group trapped in the diner, and is treated with equal contempt. Messages are pounded into us without letup--the Vietnam generation turning its violence back on America, the helplessness of women (who do nothing but tremble and bawl, and like Cheryl repeat 90 times, "I'm scared"), the arrogance of power, the sadism built into our society. We are supposed to sit there mesmerized and say, "Gee, I never thought of that," as if we haven't been thinking all these things for a long time. It is no longer enough merely to throw such...
...Bawling Nonsense? Despite these theological controversies, the Baptists grew together early in the 19th century only to be shattered by the fight over slavery. Church authorities declared in 1845 that no slave owner should be permitted to serve as a Baptist missionary, so the Southern Baptists seceded and organized their own convention. The Civil War brought ruin to many of them. Northern preachers demanded loyalty oaths from their defeated brethren, and many Southerners headed West, carrying Scriptures in their saddlebags and baptizing new converts in the creeks and cow ponds of the prairies. Out of the hellfire tradition of revival...
...environmental awareness" or "the whole-earth experience." By whatever name, the grail of the great outdoors lures more and more thousands of Americans each year to an increasingly jampacked yonder where too often the awareness is of crowded humanity and the call of the wild has become the bawl of a transistor radio...
...Head Coach Chuck Fairbanks. Fairbanks, 41, joined New England two years ago after coaching Oklahoma to a 52-15-1 record. He has transformed the Patriots with a low-key, work-hard approach. "He's a teacher," says Kicker John Smith. "He doesn't bawl and shout." What he does do is organize, breaking down the Patriots' long practices into carefully plotted six-minute drills. Says Plunkett: "The guys are fired up. We want to win, and we're having fun doing...
...grade glut has been spreading across academe. At Yale, 42% of all undergraduate spring-term grades were A's, and 46% of the senior class graduated with honors. "It's ridiculous," says Eva Balogh, dean of Yale's Morse College. "They get a B and they bawl. It takes a man or woman of real integrity to give a B." At American University, 75% of all grades last spring were A's and B's, leading an undergraduate dean to ask for a faculty inquiry. At the University of Pittsburgh, the average grade...