Word: breath
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Five years ago, just the breath of the word provoked debate in dining halls and first-year rooming groups...
Part of the problem in living in a society where sex is constantly present but is still taboo as a conversational topic. The media and advertisers send out messages of sex in the same breath that they caution us about AIDS...
Four years ago the Faculty Council took a deep breath and made a rare statement of courageous principle...
...thing about prohibition is that it keeps us from having to confront all the other little addictions that get us through the day. It's the NutraSweet in the coffee we use to wash down the chocolate mousse; a dad's "Just say no" commandments borne on martini-scented breath. "Don't do drugs," a Members Only ad advises. "Do clothes." Well, why "do" anything? Why not live more lightly, without compulsions of any kind? Then there's TV, the addiction whose name we can hardly speak -- the poor man's virtual reality, the substance-free citizen's 24-hour...
...bring an immediate payoff for the 380,000 residents of Sarajevo, where about 10,000 people -- including 1,500 children -- have been killed since Bosnian Serbs launched the war in April 1992. If the guns pull back and the U.N.-brokered cease-fire holds, Sarajevans can draw a confident breath and move around their city in the knowledge that they will not be shot by snipers or blown to pieces. That achievement alone is worth considerable effort, and it could lend impetus to similar settlements for other ostensibly "safe areas" where Muslims are surrounded by both Serbs and Croats...