Word: dares
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many people in this intellectual community become outraged when the dword is mentioned. Dare I mention the word? Okay, brace yourself, here it is: discrimination. I am often confused by the muddled thinking which surrounds this word. Discrimination occurs constantly, in all facets of life. Harvard, for example, does not admit every student who applies--and for important reasons. Also, the military itself has certain physical and intellectual requirements for entrance. It must be made clear that the outrage caused by discrimination only properly applies to arbitrary or unjustified discrimination...
...Dare you to start a magazine these days--and get out your first issue before the Lampoon prints...
...nation and era, was to be "okay, but, you know, a bit of a dick head at the end of the day;" Cambridge's final section would respond with a triumphant, militant condemnation of her arrogance, "kind of 'oh me, oh my, what a terrible institution this is, how dare they?;'" Phillips says...
...downside of independence is isolation, and it's in this psychological Kalahari that non-American kid movies dare to dwell. Some of 1992's most ; provocative and poignant European films -- Toto le Heros, Olivier Olivier and The Long Day Closes, to be released in the U.S. in May -- are about children whom cruelty or circumstance forces to create a world of their own. Il Ladro di Bambini has this theme. The state has removed two children (Valentina Scalici and Giuseppe Ieracitano) from their mother's care, since for two years she has forced the girl, 11, to be a child...
...scorpion's bite, and seized by loathing so intense that he quietly breaks a stranger's nose. In just such an unassuming manner, McEwan questions the forces that govern our lives. Can we really explain the twisted landscape of human history with the neat, scientific principles we have devised? Dare we do otherwise...