Word: fad
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Americans can still take courage from their example. Cultural separatism within this republic is more a fad than a serious proposal; it is not likely to hold. If it did, it would be a disaster for those it claims to help: the young, the poor and the black. Self-esteem comes from doing things well, from discovering how to tell a truth from a lie and from finding out what unites us as well as what separates us. The posturing of the politically correct is no more a guide to such matters than the opinions of Simon Legree...
...story of Camden is the story of boys who blind stray dogs after school, who come to Sunday Mass looking for cookies because they are hungry, who arm themselves with guns, knives and -- this winter's fad at $400 each -- hand grenades. It is the story of girls who dream of becoming hairdressers but wind up as whores, who get pregnant at 14 only to bury their infants. "We're a graveyard for everyone else's problems," says Doyle, "and there is a feeling that this is somehow acceptable because those who live here are poor. Well...
...appearance and popularity of these stores are signs of our growing environmental consciousness, but also of the extent to which environmentalism has become a fad. Slap the label "organic" on anything, from lip gloss to supermarket baggies, and you can double the price and still increase sales...
Jonathan A. Bresman '95 had a low cholesterol diet way before it was an American fad...
...Ontario, health insurance is socialized (not the same thing as socialized medicine). The universities are semiprivate at most. Orwell and D'Souza, take note: we have a Ministry of Multiculturalism. Taxes are through the roof. Recycling, America's new fad, has been commonplace in Canada for years...