Word: hopeful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...accommodating students' requests to be transferred out of living arrangements with a gay student, is ostensibly attempting to eliminate a potentially uncomfortable source of sexual tension. We hope that most students who request the change usually do not harbor negative feelings against gays in particular but rather feel somehow uncomfortable living with a gay roommate. The FDO, then, is merely alleviating a particular kind of discomfort...
...hope that increasingly few students take advantage of the option, but the FDO should maintain its current policy of allowing first-years to switch out of their assigned rooming groups if they so request...
...outspoken supporters of controversial politics, such as Lisa Bochard [NATION, May 24], shown with her M-16, whose recommendation that "teachers should be encouraged to have guns" earned the animus of 52: "When I read that, I had to scream." "Bochard's pathological relationship with her weapon makes me hope there are no little children who call her Mommy." "Pistol-packing pedagogues can teach the four Rs: readin', 'ritin', 'rithmetic and 'rmed response." "Instead of sending a disruptive student to the principal, the teacher could just shoot him in the kneecap." "Hey, Lisa! Get rid of the gun, get help...
...longtime admirer of Chicago, I can only hope that cooler heads prevail. Atlanta, which is to boosterism what Las Vegas is to ATM machines, has been playing catch-up ball for years. It's just the sort of place that would boast about having the busiest airport, which seems a bit like boasting about having the world's largest traffic jam. Asian cities like Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong and Shanghai have become Atlanta. Eager to call attention to their commercial muscle, they all have tallest-building projects. They're like a family that moves into a fancy neighborhood...
...shouting like an aging mafioso. But Pacino is one of the good guys. The real gangsters are tobacco barons in Louisville, Ky., and network lawyers in New York City. They speak in genial or condoling tones; they have only the best interests of their corporations at heart and truly hope you see it their way. Otherwise they'll crush you. Brown & Williamson CEO Thomas Sandefur (played by Michael Gambon) has a manner as smooth as the draw of a Kool menthol into the lungs, and every bit as toxic. A CBS attorney (Gina Gershon) softly, crisply tells the lords...