Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...glittery bleakness of his plots and settings, at heart a metaphysical writer, intensely interested?as was Flannery O?Connor?in the fate of people who cannot find a reason for their existence," says TIME's Paul Gray. "The husband in Helping who falls off the wagon tries to defend himself by attacking his religious wife: ?Sometimes I try to imagine what it?s like to believe that the sky is full of care and concern.? The remark wounds, as intended, but the speaker and all the sufferers in this remarkable collection know it is a cry of pain...
Scott's proposals for what is known as donor servicing, which she explicitly characterized as an effort to build a base for the 1996 campaign, were so outrageous that the White House did not bother to try to defend them. Presidential spokesman Michael McCurry showed his disdain from the briefing room podium, where he described Scott as "quite voluble" and added, "I think Marsha Scott may have had many dreams, but the important thing is what happened...
...abort it when she comes so late for help that the only difference between the baby's being born alive or dead is whether she gives birth in a maternity ward or a clinic. This doesn't happen often, but even one time is too many to defend...
Most of us have grown to have a wry affection for our houses, regardless of the initial tragedy of the computer slips with neatly typed house names. For no apparent reason we defend our dining halls and often get a little defensive about food quality. Perhaps it's all just testimony to Harvard's brainwashing capacity (which is pretty damn impressive), but still, I do know people I wouldn't have known otherwise: the large people are friendly. Tapestries, plants, tin foil, and posters can do a pretty good job at disguising the interesting concrete motifs within our rooms...
...never do we get a detailed explanation of what drove tuition up in the first place. Inflation can't explain it; over the past 20 years, tuition increased twice as fast as the overall cost of living. Tuition even outpaced a special price index deployed by colleges to help defend themselves against mounting criticism. Nor does anyone ever explain why schools with very different endowments--like Harvard, with more than $9 billion, and Penn, with just over $2 billion--charge roughly the same tuition--or just exactly where this vast torrent of tax-free revenue goes. Should it matter...