Word: fabric
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...point: that it's not easy to define the word flag. If the members of the committee got out more often, they would know that some of the most patriotic buns and bosoms on our beaches come wrapped in Old Glory or tiny fragments thereof. Are these bits of fabric also flags? Here we have come up against a deep Postmodernist puzzle. If a flag is a symbol, how can a replica of a flag be anything but another flag? The T at the start of this sentence is not a replica of the letter T, but of course...
...this conception of negative liberty is only the first step toward fulfilling the Constitution's promises. The Court now needs to realize that positive entitlements to communicative power are part of the fabric of our democratic process. In the case of private campaign finance, we now effectively cede control of elections to the markets' powers that be. Yet the market needs laws in order to operate, and state action is logically prior to and normatively superior to any economic activity...
...Anything that diminishes that throughisolating groups of students I think is a loss tothe fabric of the College," he says...
...Spoleto at its best. One would hope, in years to come, that the festival will give more stress to American programming-it makes little sense to celebrate Europe here, when Europe is perfectly capable of celebrating itself there. In addition, the festival could integrate itself more closely into the fabric of Charleston history by offering, for instance, concerts of mid-19th century American music in one of its great houses...
...Oklahoma City bombers are murderers, they ought to be executed. As they are part of a growing number of Americans who cannot conceive of a role for themselves within our social fabric, their desperate call ought to be heeded--and acted upon...