Word: killjoy
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...agenda. Chirac wants not only to make France the champion of the oppressed in general against the great American hegemon but also to make it in particular the champion of Arab aspirations against American imperialism. Even the left-leaning French newspaper Le Monde criticized Chirac for acting the "killjoy" in Istanbul. But Chirac's behavior was no mere outburst. It is a strategy for a French future. Chirac is charting a course - a collision course with America. Istanbul was just one accident scene. There are many more to come...
...might seem like a killjoy. After all, China at the moment is the star on the world economic stage. The country's soaring need for a host of goods, especially commodities such as oil, iron ore and aluminum, is a major contributor to global economic recovery. China is poised this year to pass Japan as the world's third largest importer. But the government needs to keep the economy superheated just to provide jobs for the 12 million to 15 million people coming into its labor market every year. That means finding ever larger markets--both internal and overseas...
Nothing was more symbolic of the Taliban's fall than the appearance of a forbidden kite in the skies over Kabul. Breathless news accounts heralded it as a harbinger of Afghanistan's rebirth; the killjoy Talibs were gone and music, which they had also banned, played at their wake. But in Khaled Hosseini's debut novel, The Kite Runner, this symbol of liberation serves only to remind Afghan refugee Amir of a past he has desperately tried to escape. Exiled to San Francisco, Amir revisits that past in a series of flashbacks set amidst Afghanistan's war-wracked history. What...
...must for a time submit," he advised at one aggravating juncture. In fact, ego massaging and wheel greasing and string pulling--the courtier's repertoire--came easily to him. He was no innocent abroad; he was no more bawdy Poor Richard than he was the self-correcting killjoy of his autobiography. What he was instead was himself, gravitas and raffishness combined, always a winning combination in Paris. The censors approved Poor Richard's Almanack for publication in 1777 but noted that it could have been in better taste. It proved a best seller...
...know I sound like a killjoy. But the inauguration has become like so many other contemporary American holidays - that is, a celebration for celebration's sake. Too many of our holidays, like Christmas and Thanksgiving, have become deracinated consumer celebrations unconnected to any traditional meaning...