Word: instantly
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...turning to Geraldo Rivera when tragedy strikes, we might consider turning to a Frenchman whose keen insights into America upon his visit in the mid-1800s still resonate today. Alexis de Tocqueville, in Volume Two of Democracy in America, writes of the exact instinct which stirs our love of instant explanation. Americans, he wrote, have "an unrestrained passion for generalizations," which is rooted in our democratic instincts. Believing that all humans are fundamentally alike, the democrat has "an ardent and often blind passion of the human spirit to discover common rules for everything" and seeks "to explain a group...
...three networks 20 years ago to 60% shared by six of them today, seem too paralyzed to make real changes. "Networks are locked in a box like the rest of corporate America," says Norman Lear, who created All in the Family. "In TV terms that translates into 'Gimme an instant hit' at the expense of every other value, like creativity." Instead of looking beyond Burbank for people with fresh ideas, the networks return to the same talent pool over and over. As Imagine's Grazer puts it, "Everyone is sucking up the same creative oxygen." And too often, when something...
...instance, since the books are distributed as bytes online rather than on expensive paper, you might expect to get a break on price. You don't. For example, Into Thin Air, which I bought, costs $6.39 whether you get it in paperback or electronic-book format. And forget about instant delivery. It can take hours for your order to be processed and your book delivered. (In my case, it took significantly longer since the e-mail address I used to set up my eBook was different from the one I had used to set up a barnesandnoble.com account...
When Valerie Hermes got married two years ago to James, a divorced man with three children, her life-style changed dramatically. Before you could say "sport utility vehicle," the 29-year-old Dallas market researcher had moved to the suburbs and thrown herself into instant parenthood. Yet despite the many hours she has spent caring for her stepchildren, Hermes says they are often angry at her. "I'm there, and I'm doing all these mother things," she says. "I'm making their lunch, and I'm helping them with their homework, and I'm doing all of this stuff...
...this instant platform been lost on our politicians. Newly minted political thinker Jesse Ventura suggested that if controls on concealed weapons were relaxed, the killings might not have occurred -- positing the novel concept that a well-armed student body is the best defense in a democracy. Gary Bauer opined that too few children have been told that they're created by God. A few, like Lamar Alexander and Ben Nighthorse Campbell, directly addressed the responsibility of parents, but stopped short of blaming these particular parents. Such specificity of guilt is uncomfortable for America, which prefers vague, generalized culprits less offensive...