Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...current discontent may be an entirely personal failing, and Governor Bush's call for moral education may have been merely a tactical ploy to court soccer moms. Yet I cannot help but regret that my path through the American educational system has armed me with so much cynicism and has not afforded more opportunity to contemplate what I truly want out of life...
...important now more than ever--as abortion is still under attack from many fronts even as new choices for women arise--that the Supreme Court address the right which it first affirmed over 25 years ago. America's women deserve no less than the full protection of their rights under...
Everything about Monica is disarming. On the tennis court, the intensity burns in her eyes like a tiger catching up to its prey. She whispers to herself in between points, urging herself to step up the killer instinct one more notch. And when Monica is playing her best tennis, it's smothering. She doesn't let you up for air. It's a demolition of the highest quality...
...tennis court, Monica Seles is so gentle that you almost have to laugh at the disparity. She giggles, she smiles, she's perpetually upbeat. By the end of my interview with her, I understood why Monica--one of the most famous athletes in the world--left her own message on my answering machine. It's because Monica has no fronts, no walls around her. She lives simply and honestly...
...Kirshner argues, the discoverer of elliptical orbits and other astronomers may have dabbled in astronomy only when forced to do so by the zodiacally-inclined emperors of the Holy Roman Empire. Nor was this phenomenon unique to Western cultures. "For instance, in the Court of China," Kirshner says, "the emperor believed in astrology. And it is documented that people studied the stars as a means of forecasting war, pestilence, or worst of all: a change in the emperor...