Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...absence of strong ideological differences, images have become important: D'Amico's campaign has presented him as the rumpled, savvy pol with working-class roots and a common touch. Murphy plays the polished administrator, decisive and effective in the practice of a traditionally male profession...
...school is not without its detractors. The most common criticism is that it teaches, in the words of Washington Monthly Editor Charles Peters, "the art of public administration, how to get elected instead of the issues that government is trying to accomplish...
...years ago, student protesters were disciplined for blockading a South African diplomat in the Lowell House Junior Common Room after the blockade became violent...
...mountain road in Idaho, where they had been fighting a forest fire. Just as the Jemez community (pop. 2,800) always turned out to send its Eagles off to do battle against fire, it gathered again for the fire fighters' funeral. The four Indians were buried in a common grave, their bodies wrapped, according to custom, only in blankets...
...called core curriculum. Largely the handiwork of Rosovsky, the core today is a collection of nearly 150 courses drawn from six broad academic areas, including science, literature and the arts and foreign cultures, from which undergraduates must select 25% of their baccalaureate studies. Rosovsky believes the core assures common immersion in great currents of world knowledge and "develops a student's powers of reasoning and analysis." Moreover, it is designed to prevent scattershot course selection or its opposite, one-dimensional curricula including little but a student's major...