Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...implications of this idea proved far-reaching, and scientists are still studying such symbiotic relationships...
...want to disseminate the idea that male virginity is acceptable, we have to move away from our historical obsession that defines virginity as a strictly feminine phenomenon. We must start defining virginity in a gender neutral sense. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the foremost authority on the English language, demonstrates the entrenchment of our association of virginity with females. According to the OED, a virgin is "an unmarried or chaste maiden, distinguished for piety or steadfastness in religion." The OED's second definition of virgin as "a woman (esp. a young woman) who is, or remains, in a state...
Someone came up with the less-than-brilliant idea of slapping a '50s-retro veneer on all the singers' clothes and gestures. Rigoletto in hat and coat recalls Willy Loman with a hump; Gilda sports a flaring gray poodle-skirt, a bright red cardigan sweater and ponytail tied with a matching red ribbon. The duke, when he comes a-courting, looks sublimely ridiculous in a red monogrammed vest. Even the courtship scene between the duke and Gilda is straight out of the '50s, reminiscent of that porch swing on a summer night--a worthy tradition...
...When you're young and everyone's going through puberty, yeah, there's going to be some teasing. There's going to be the idea that "Hey, you're different so let's pick...
...idea has drawn fire from admissions officials, who say that the mechanisms for such a process would be unwieldy and that it will be impossible to examine prospective students' personal experiences while ignoring their race and gender...