Word: discarding
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...adopted Mathinna, an orphan, and then tried to make her into a good Victorian girl. But she ends up a lost plaything, at home nowhere, a novelty like her own pet albino possum, batted this way and that by the rich white people who dote on her and then discard her. Mathinna is Flanagan's most successful creation, and his saddest. She's a savage ruined by the desires of the cultured English - an irony lost on everyone but the reader...
...founding father of what Tutu dubbed "The Rainbow Nation," diversity, it was said, was no longer a source of division, but one of strength, hope, even beauty. Mandela's embrace of the new vision hid the fact that many in the ANC rank and file were struggling to discard their old monochrome view of the world. The ANC was - and still is - confronting the same dilemma that faces all liberation movements once in power. Simply put: good revolutionaries often make bad democrats. Revolutionaries plot in secret, follow orders and serve the people by leading them. Democrats debate openly and serve...
...should have that dialogue. You don't have to go around in a sackcloth and ashes. I just came back from Africa and we won't live like they do in villages. But when you come back to America you become conscious of how much stuff we discard on a daily basis and just how much stuff we have. I have a friend who has a saying: it's not what you want, it's what you need. That's a good mantra...
...records sort of start out the same way. I go through my tapes that I've been making for well, half my life, basically. Since I was 15. I write constantly, so there's a lot of material to choose from and there's a lot to discard...
...file for bankruptcy last year. First, she seemed to have violated some unspoken rule we have about fertility treatments, the miracle technologies that nuzzle up against so many ethical lines. We can create embryos in a dish, pick out the best ones, hire surrogates to carry them, freeze and discard the extras, all processes that make at least some people somewhat uncomfortable but that we accept because of our understanding of the deep desire to be a parent - a need that for many ranks somewhere with food and sleep, only it lives less in the body than in the soul...