Word: harmlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appreciation and abuse. Occasionally (usually in our dreams) we walk past men who smile fondly at us. Most of the time we are subjected to a crossfire which makes running the gauntlet look like a stroll. Comments like "Mmmmmm, nice," and "Hi there, honey" from total strangers may seem harmless; but because of them a women who ventures out in public is apt to return home feeling more-totalled than Total...
...cutting prose and a cranky confidence make Fussell a formidable exploiter of status anxiety. Imagine how many college stickers will quietly disappear from the family cars after uneasy readers learn that a seemingly harmless practice is an advertisement of insecurity and prestige by association. The news that better sorts wear only navy blue and gray should seal the musty fate of millions of brown suits, and dinner-party hostesses may never get another compliment after the pronouncement that upper classes find praise rude, "possessions there being of course beautiful, expensive and impressive, without question...
...paces from his cell to a small, green-painted room and climbed voluntarily onto a wheeled hospital gurney. He was to be the second man in the U.S. executed by injection, and after he was strapped down, a prison employee inserted an IV tube into each arm. A harmless saline solution began to flow, while executioners prepared to release a fatal dose of Pavulon, potassium chloride and thiopental sodium. He lay there waiting to die at the appointed time...
...woman, two Jews and a cripple." It nearly got Watt ousted a few weeks ago. It might yet. Why? Surely the substance of his remark is not taboo. In the right hands, with the right tone, a joke about the overexacting demands of affirmative action could result in genuine, harmless hilarity. But not with Watt. When he tells a joke, the prisoners start to riot...
...Epps evidently felt that it did not follow the guidelines closely enough, but I felt was clever and harmless," student conductor Ryan Reetz '84 said...