Word: commonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exact instinct which stirs our love of instant explanation. Americans, he wrote, have "an unrestrained passion for generalizations," which is rooted in our democratic instincts. Believing that all humans are fundamentally alike, the democrat has "an ardent and often blind passion of the human spirit to discover common rules for everything" and seeks "to explain a group of facts by one sole cause...
...Walk for Hunger route begins at Boston Common, then goes through Boston, Brookline, Newton, Watertown and Cambridge before arriving back at the starting point. Sites passed along the way include the Chestnut Hill Reservoir, Boston College and Eliot Church...
Last Saturday night I was witness to a sordid train of events. The identities of those involved will not be divulged. Upon returning from a poetry reading, my friend and I entered her common room to discover an intoxicated, unconscious pre-frosh lying on the floor in a pool of her own vomit. My friend was not this poor girl's host, and neither were any of her roommates. In fact, this girl had been invited to consume some illegally acquired alcohol by another pre-frosh, who was staying in the room because her sister is one of my friend...
Whether we are participants or viewers, there is one piece of common knowledge that unites us. We know that awards shows are basically for the performing industry to laud itself while ensuring self-perpetuation. In its execution, Boston's contribution to the awards phenomenon was not too different. The town's Music Awards even had famed personalities present to complement the Boston musicians and their fans. These celebrities, fixtures in award culture, are darlings propelled to notoriety by the coast-to-coast pop culture machine. Joshua Jackson, Duncan Sheik, Joey McIntyre and Kay Hanley of Letters to Cleo were such...
Using poems of metrical dexterity that are filled with wit, subtle humour and a vast vocabulary, Hollander brings many common poetic themes to light in Figurehead in admittedly startling forms. Experimenting with various meters, dictions and forms, Hollander's poems continually strive to discover, in the process, the perfect poetic language (or what Hollander terms "the back room of meaning...