Word: blanketed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Says Arlen Chase: "You get this real warped view of what Maya politics and Classic society look like if you just use epigraphy. It's important, but archaeology is the only way to test it." Observes Houston: "Of course it's propaganda, but to jump from that to a blanket dismissal is preposterous...
...wood stove in the living room provides the only warmth on cold days. The seven children huddle together under a thin, frayed blanket. Sometimes they play word games, but mostly they just sit and listen to a car radio hooked up to an old battery. The most popular song of the day is "Soldier of Happiness." It goes...
...through imagination and stereotype -- is the core of Said's work, especially of Orientalism and Culture and Imperialism. But Said despises what he calls "the minority mentality" on American campuses. "My books are one long protest against it. The status of victim is not a passive blanket that you pull over yourself. You can always do something. Anyway, there's no such thing as a pure unmediated culture, any more than there's a pure unmediated self. All people, all cultures, are hybrid. I'm against essentialism. I'm against provincial nationalism. Yet people still insist on getting it wrong...
Throughout the months-long Powell debate, campus liberals have remained strangely silent. Instead of trying to rally around the issue, blanket liberal groups like the College Democrats have placed the burden of protest on smaller special-interest groups such as the BGLSA...
Most embarrassing moment: Freshman year, on the very first night, my roommate locked himself out of our room in Canaday and slept in the bathroom using a shower curtain as a blanket. He was running around in his underwear outside trying to get us to open the door but I had earplugs in and my other roommate thought he was dreaming...