Word: buzzword
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition, Carter's controversial selections for his Cabinet might contain a lesson for Clinton, who has made "change" into a political buzzword...
That's the image GOP officials have tried to present this week, unleashing a number of minority speakers on the podium. Many have told stories of self-improvement, of triumph over adversity, of pulling themselves up. The buzzword is enterprise; the reference is to the American Dream...
...composition of Berkeley's student body went from about 90 percent white in the mid-1960s to about 45 percent white today. At Berkeley, Duster explains, diversity is an extremely loaded term. "It's an actual demographic issue," he says. "It wasn't just a buzzword...
First, the word narrator. I think that this is the most important buzzword for any English concentrator, or any student dealing with a fictional text, to learn. In fiction, if you call the narrator something like "the author," any teaching fellow who plans on finishing graduate school will turn your paper into cream cheese. The narrator carries out most of the functions of the author in terms of being able to construct the text...
...omniscient system is a complete buzzword from my tutorial. I was almost tempted to use the phrase "hermeneutics of suspicion," which was the other great term, but I never figured out what it meant. What the omniscient system is all about, rather simply, is that some higher being knows everything that's going on in the story (usually it is the person who thought up the story in the first place...