Word: carefulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...commitment to those values as well. That's why the political-robotics technicians of both parties expend so much energy staging tableaux of loving family life, though strictly speaking the number of one's children, grandchildren and household pets is irrelevant in evaluating one's views on federal day care...
...euphemisms. "He'll be a dwarf." She collapsed into sobs, protesting, "God, I don't deserve this. I have done nothing wrong." It was another day before the fighter in her took over, and she began to prepare for the challenge. "I knew I would be taking care of a boy who would not be able to reach doorknobs, refrigerator handles, light switches and the sink for years and years. Even now, he uses baby chairs and desks for homework and a stool to reach the bathroom sink...
...year is a tribute to his powers. But boundless drive has always been at the root of his work. His imagery bears the stamp of passion, an aesthete's passion, even in a century in which beauty has an uncertain status as a basis for art. Mapplethorpe does not care; he is a true believer. The poet Czeslaw Milosz, musing on the visible world, once wrote, "Out of reluctant matter/ What can be gathered? Nothing, beauty at best." Mapplethorpe might agree, but he would add that beauty seems like magnificent compensation...
...said that he was pretty much a blank slate, and I think that's true. Look at the fundamental issues that face this country: economic development, especially in distressed regions of the country, health care, housing, education, the environment. There's no definition. There are 38 million Americans without health insurance. What would a Bush Administration do about that? I don't think anybody has a clue...
...Caplan, director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Bio-Medical Ethics. "For children that's fine, but not for adults," says Caplan. No matter how much you love them, he argues, "when you get to be an adult, you wouldn't necessarily pick your parents to take care of you." Most adults, however, never have to face such a choice...