Word: intersectionals
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...political sense, Nixon's trip will be a foreign duplication of his excursions last week into the American countryside. The President flew first to Kansas State University in the gentle hill country of northeast Kansas, where longitude and attitude seem to intersect in quintessential definition of Middle America. There, if anywhere, the man of both coasts would find a spiritual home...
...subcultures seldom intersect, for the young largely ignore the old or treat them with what Novelist Saul Bellow calls "a kind of totalitarian cruelty, like Hitler's attitude toward Jews." It is as though the aged were an alien race to which the young will never belong. Indeed, there is a distinct discrimination against the old that has been called ageism. In its simplest form, says Psychiatrist Robert Butler of Washington, B.C., ageism is just "not wanting to have all these ugly old people around." Butler believes that in 25 or 30 years, ageism will be a problem equal...
...nights in bed with a series of white women who come equipped with all sorts of far-out perversions (sexual and otherwise) that seem guaranteed to strip away all of his carefully prepared defenses. The novel gets progressively more manic as the two worlds begin to collide and intersect and Jiveass finds that even the lies no longer mask the absurdity of his situation or help to give him a sense of who he is or what the hell he is doing...
...world can be seen simultaneously from every angle. And in an imaginative murder mystery called The Garden of Forking Paths, time is envisioned as a complex network of planes on which spatial events may occur independently of one another-unless, of course, the planes happen to intersect accidentally...
...open the bedroom door and find a big yellow puddle in between me and the bathroom. It is this--not the fondling, not the playing of tricks, not the 'stand up; roll over, boy"--that most frequently causes the vectors of your life and the dog's to intersect. That is to say, that in terms of existential moments you get to know the dog by what it leaves behind...