Word: endless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exciting as it seems, the democratization of the university poses a great threat to liberal education. This threat is hard to perceive at first because it lurks behind what appears most gentle, familiar and just. Yet what is the endless rhapsody about diversity, but really a perverse assertion of our individual incompleteness, ignorance and mutual dependence? The ideal of diversity hates homogeneity and loves heterogeneity, and so disdains the one or the few in order to embrace the many. The diverse university and the diverse curriculum are therefore democratic. But liberal education is anti-democratic, shunning what is vulgar...
...limited to these four years within the confines of Cambridge--it's life-long. But it may never be as intense as it can be here. The opportunities here for learning seemingly disparate fields such as Russian and computer science and for having both Hindu and Jewish friends are endless. But in many areas we really only scrape the surface, getting a glimpse of the vast subjects we know nothing about. The challenge we face here in this season of beginnings is to recognize these areas, and to start learning about them...
With money like that, Farrakhan could have taught H. Ross Perot and the late Howard Hughes a thing or two about eccentricity. He shares Perot's elephantine ego, endless self-righteousness, grandiose political ambitions and deep-seated belief that people are plotting against him. Some of his notions--like the mystical importance of the number 19 and his claim to have taken trips on alien spacecraft--are as cockamamie as Hughes' obsession with germs. As far as I know, neither Perot nor Hughes ever pretended to speak on behalf of God. For Farrakhan and his followers, such miracles are strictly...
...scheduled. Well, hey, if this is not voodoo economics but will really work, why not cut taxes 25% or even 30%, thereby doubling the number of jobs created and productivity, and making possible the elimination of the deficit in three--maybe even two--years? This tax-cutting idea has endless possibilities. JOHN R. MAYER Melville, New York...
...pursuing modest and relatively uncontroversial but worthwhile goals--requiring teenage welfare mothers to live at home, for instance, and intensifying the pursuit of deadbeat dads, who have been forced to pay 40% more money for the support of their children. From Clinton's bully pulpit these days comes an endless succession of moderate-conservative preachments: for school uniforms, teen curfews and more cops on the street; against TV violence; for gay rights but against same-sex marriage. Affirmative action? "Mend...