Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Second, billions of dollars (not to mention vast reservoirs of human ingenuity) can be wasted turning disfavored forms of income into favored forms. The essential function of the tax-shelter industry was converting ordinary income into capital gains, before the gains break was eliminated in the 1986 tax reform...
...Besides, a poll certainly doesn't justify a violation of human rights," said Lauderdale...
...been proven time and time again that there is no connection between crime and the death penalty. It is not a deterrent," said Susan Rich, the program director of Amnesty International, an organization of human rights activists. The group opposes the death penalty on the grounds that it violates the "basic human right to life, liberty, and the security of person as guaranteed by international...
...soporific, a kind of Quaalude to the energies of career, politics and other achievement. And Willa Cather, I believe, was very wrong in describing what she called "that secondary social man, the lover." Rather it seems to me that the love of a single person--passionate, devoted, consuming, honoring...human--is the fuel that drives and deepens all other social passions and commitments, which connects us to the species in a way which work, career, money and our ever-bloated resumes can only hope to imitate. Und, after all, was the great connective in Freud's formula...
Every generation, every culture, every human individual, it seems to me, earns their right to a certain epitaph--words that sum up, even without entirely describing, the values they stood for, the passions they honored, the choices they made. What saddens me about the generation The Boston Globe, and my own eyes, have so vividly observed and described is that theirs might not have to be these few lines of W.H. Auden's famous "New Year Letter," written on the eve of the Second World...