Word: erect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is no such thing as an inherently bias-free standard of academic achievement. Every standard we erect will reflect some particular set of values and criteria which is shared by some groups and not by others...
...determined to highlight her stance as an individual, Brown pointedly refuses to accept the usual burden of political correctness that comes with being a "gay author." With enormous relish, she has her characters tell stories of sniffing cocaine from an erect black penis ("It doesn't look as good on a white cock.") Nor does Venus shy away from the reputation of promiscuity enjoyed by the gay community. As she tells Frazier: "We shared our bodies. We gloried in the experience. I go my way and you go yours far richer than before we met. If I sleep with someone...
...Auden was, in fact, a great poet, but for all the public knew or cared, he was just an ordinary homosexual living and working in a world that, by tacit agreement, did not pry into people's sex lives. Even when the media came out of the closet -- pencils erect and cameras hot -- to chase stories about the New Libido, homosexuality was still a taboo subject...
...ignore the fact that we don't pay our union workers a decent wage. We never think about why Cambridge's universities erect new buildings in neighborhoods which won't (or can't) fight back, often at residents' expense...
...replicate their mean lives and dead-end careers or the madness to which they are all heir. And so, in this slum of bruised humanity that never seems quite human to him, where "the birds endlessly bitch about winter," Leo will scribble his thoughts about his family. He will erect a castle of words on the fertile ground of his imagination, on the fetid soil of his craving for love, revenge and escape...