Word: benightedness
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Both Bush and Freedom's Watch, which the White House says is operating independently of the Administration, will attempt to cast the war in Iraq as another in a long progression of noble American efforts to bring liberty to benighted regions of the world. Bush wants to show, says counselor...
Seen today, 47 years later, L'Avventura seems easy to read, a treat to watch and a pretty profound parable on the limits of fidelity and friendship. The movie's title, which translates as The Adventure, was not a joke; it was an apt appraisal of the intellectual thrills the...
Of his years at Harvard, James Freeman Clarke, Class of 1829, recalled with no little ire that the Faculty subjected the students to a daily drilling in which "no attempt was made to interest us in our studies." The new century brought a fresh crop of (apparently) benighted undergraduates, and...
And don't even mention how other genres have glorified Chicago at Indiana's expense - like Alfred Hitchcock's thriller North By Northwest, in which Cary Grant gets chased between Chicago and Indianapolis. In Chicago, Cary does suave, urbane things like thwart the bad guys at a high-rent art...
But before I go about lamenting how bigoted and benighted the American people are, I must pause to consider whether refusing to vote for a certain category of people is a priori evidence of prejudice. Or rather, since the very definition of the word “prejudice�...