Word: impoverish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dying Jane Wyman in one film, then woo perky Doris Day in another. Thus his pictures are both bleakly comic and defiantly romantic, hipper than tomorrow and nostalgic for a pre-AIDS era when love's most toxic complication was a broken heart. "To classify movies is to impoverish them," he says. "Law of Desire was about a gay couple. But passion is the subject. I was trying to tell a love story...
...than 50 years ago, V.L. Parrington's Main Currents in American Thought noted that the sharpster appealed to the hidden desires of an otherwise hardworking, pious people. Lindberg considers the ambivalent attitude to be not hypocrisy but rather a theoretical expression of American genius. A con man may impoverish widows and orphans, but he cannot do so without first creating confidence. And confidence, says the author, who is a professor of English at the University of New Hampshire, is what America is all about...
...divinity student, I am dismayed by the continuing efforts of U.S. Protestants to create one united church [Feb. 11]. It is one thing to agree that the church is the body of Christ. It is quite another to impoverish that body by stressing uniformity and compromise. In 7 Corinthians, St. Paul writes: "The body does not consist of one member, but of many." One united church would be weaker than a group of churches expressing the Christian faith in its authentic diversity...