Word: echoeing
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...World War I. The appalling chaos, the industrialization of death, the grinding of a whole generation into the mud of France by advanced technology -- these spelled an end to positivist fantasies of human progress. And after the carnage of the trenches, who but a cretin or a fascist could echo the futurists' rhetoric about war as the hygiene of civilization? To many artists it must have seemed that picking up the pieces had priority over more fragmentation...
...close to Souter say he has already decided to discuss the right to privacy on which Roe rests. Many conservatives (and some liberals, including the late Justice Hugo Black) insist privacy is an invented liberty without constitutional foundation. Let Souter second Black, if that be his position, and then echo those liberal scholars like Raoul Berger who say Roe was wrongly decided (although Berger, at least, applauds the opinion's result). Then, if Souter is confirmed, the electorate will not feel cheated...
...mounting deficit (estimated at $169 billion for fiscal 1991), which forced Bush to flee never-never land on the tax issue. That, along with the soaring costs of the S&L scandal and other problems, is beginning to eat into Bush's standing in the polls and will echo over the next two years. Says Ed Rollins, a Republican strategist: "Whether we or the Democrats like it or not, politics has moved into the '92 presidential cycle...
Invited to sing the national anthem by the San Diego Padres, the TV comedian seemed bothered by an echo from the sound system. She plugged her ears with her fingers and started shrieking the words. When fans began booing, she grabbed her crotch and spit on the ground...
...here they come: freshly minted grownups. And anyone who expected they would echo the boomers who came before, bringing more of the same attitude, should brace for a surprise. This crowd is profoundly different from -- even contrary to -- the group that came of age in the 1960s and that celebrates itself each week on The Wonder Years and thirtysomething. By and large, the 18-to-29 group scornfully rejects the habits and values of the baby boomers, viewing that group as self-centered, fickle and impractical...