Word: birthed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...example, appear twice on the stage. In "Lamps" at the beginning of the second act, Search wears the costume she was putting on in "15 Minutes." Is "Lamps" the play she was preparing for? Is this the "lacerating self-exposure" she told us of? And when Shionoiri gives birth to the dragons on stage while satirizing the Catholic saints she invokes, we can only guess whether she is an glimpse of the older baton-twirler. And did the embittered rodeo-rider journey though dozens of tattoo parlors to become the woman Brawley also plays in "Marks...
...first in "Twirler," where Yayoi Shionoiri '00 embodies a melodramatic young baton twirler obsessed--really obsessed--with twirling and the religious divination she gets out of it. Erin Billings '99 becomes a Southern belle-turned-snake-handler in "Handler," and Shionoiri reappears in Dragons as a woman giving birth to dragons (yes, on stage) while appealing to the Catholic saints and religious conventions that she seems to disdain...
Within that context, Levittown became the anti-Williamsburg: Not a re-creation of some idealized past but a living glimpse of the ticky-tacky future. The social critic Lewis Mumford called it "a low-grade uniform environment from which escape is impossible." Levittown was also tainted at birth by the offhand racism of midcentury America. Though Levittown is racially mixed today, for years Levitt's sales contracts barred resale to African Americans. He once offered to build a separate development for blacks but refused to integrate his white Levitt developments. "We can solve a housing problem...
...most influential business journalism of this heady postwar era was published between the hard covers of books. William H. Whyte's The Organization Man (1956) and Vance Packard's The Status Seekers (1959) skewered conformity within the corporation. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962) condemned corporate polluters and gave birth to the environmental movement. Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed (1965) led to drastic, overdue and life-saving changes in auto-safety standards. The underside of American business was also revealed in such hand-to-mouth, left-leaning publications as I.F. Stone's Weekly and Dorothy Day's Catholic...
ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE Gregory Pincus and two colleagues revolutionized sex by creating the first effective birth-control pill, Enovid-10, introduced in the U.S. in 1960 by Searle...