Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite Adams' efforts on the field, the Pforzheimer House masters were unwilling to give their competition the benefit of the doubt...
...They knew they were going to lose. I want that emphasized," said Pforzheimer House Committee President Manny A. Garcia '00. "The only thing they might win, but I doubt it, is the drag show. That's sort of their thing...
...Christ swing his bag of silver, swing his body from the tree? Will Christ be anointed by whores, be lover of liars, lover of women, a Christ dragged and dirtied? Will he be Christ with faith flagging, flogged, wielding wildly thorns? Will he be Christ rising from rudeness and doubt to take the cross like a shining scepter? Is this Christ the song, Christ the storm, Christ the lamb or lion? Who steps onto our stage, into our lives, dies for us? For whom will...
Hail, Christ's rage, raging! Hail, Christ the unknown! Hail, Christ rising from the arms of Magdalene! Hail, Christ, questioning! Hail, Christ wielding doubt, doughty, searing the skies with maledictions! Hail Christ at last loving despite all! Hail Christ born for our stage to die on our stage, our own Christ...
...president (he was the youngest we've ever had, by the way) embodied the intoxicating feeling at the turn of the century that America had at last become a world power. Reagan, at the moment of his accession, embodied a general national desire to put aside all the self-doubt and gloom of the 1970s and recover the optimism and patriotism of the 1950s. So to put it very simply, our presidents should represent the best of us. And when they represent the worst of us--as in the case of Nixon--the American people themselves begin to have...