Word: killjoys
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...majority of my students possess enthusiastic, brilliant minds that understand exactly the importance of all I have to preach teach them and appreciate my weekly performance. And I don’t want to sound bitter but, after all, it’s just a little galling when one killjoy fails to rise with the rest. Did I do something to offend the brat...
...still believe that Santa Claus will be sliding down your chimney on Christmas Eve, skip Jeremy Seal's historical travelogue Santa: A Life. Not that Seal is a killjoy. After all, for a start the British writer indulgently ferries his wonderstruck daughters to Santa's Kingdom, a vast, tawdry grotto in Birmingham, England, and then, a year later, all the way to Lapland. In between, though, Seal comes to admire Santa's prototype, as he tracks the shape-shifting Byzantine bishop St. Nicholas across 17 centuries of Christendom. Born in Christian Myra (now Demre) in southern Turkey...
...still believe that Santa Claus will be sliding down your chimney on Christmas Eve, skip Jeremy Seal's historical travelogue Santa: A Life. Not that Seal is a killjoy. After all, for a start the British writer indulgently ferries his wonderstruck daughters to Santa's Kingdom, a vast, tawdry grotto in Birmingham, England, and then, a year later, all the way to Lapland. In between, though, Seal comes to admire Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments...
Overstimulation, hypergreed and a kind of idiocy--those three stooges--have a way of tumbling into the room along with technological progress, which gives them respectability and theological cover. Mr. Badger, Toad's killjoy twin, makes these points: 1) each transformative moment will be superseded by another one, tomorrow or the next day--all marvels are disposable; 2) innovations are not always wonderful; 3) the world is round and time is circular; human nature is constant, but 4) may be damaged--or what is worse, humiliated--by novelties, which (like '70s neckties or television in any decade) may have about...
...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...