Word: kowtow
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...both style and substance. The top-line Democratic candidates for President in 2008--people like Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards--are a decidedly un-Western crowd. They tend to be coastal, urban, legislative. They tend to talk too formally--and too much about too little. They tiptoe and kowtow when confronted by the gothic array of Democratic interest groups. At a time when political pomp and blab have come to seem prohibitively pompous and bloviational, Rocky Mountain politics is fresh and innovative and fun. It might not be a bad idea for Hillary and Barack and the rest...
...both style and substance. The top-line Democratic candidates for President in 2008--people like Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards--are a decidedly un-Western crowd. They tend to be coastal, urban, legislative. They tend to talk too formally--and too much about too little. They tiptoe and kowtow when confronted by the gothic array of Democratic interest groups. At a time when political pomp and blab have come to seem prohibitively pompous and bloviational, Rocky Mountain politics is fresh and innovative and fun. It might not be a bad idea for Hillary and Barack and the rest...
...biological and physical sciences and indeed all areas of knowledge and scholarship. Yet the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, but one faculty among many, precipitated Summers’ resignation on account of his demand for first-rate scholarship, his challenges of their assumptions, and his refusal to kowtow to their sense of self-importance. It is shameful that a group of cantankerous, shortsighted, prima donna academics have ended the tenure of a truly visionary president. Unlike what some of the faculty have suggested, it is not Summers who is unfit to lead, but the Faculty of Arts and Sciences that...
...Nanjing in 1937-38, soldiers butchered 300,000 civilians, according to Chinese figures. Most Japanese are aware of what happened but their society has never engaged in the type of introspection common in Germany after the Holocaust. Carefully worded official apologies have landed far short of the five-star kowtow demanded by Beijing, senior Tokyo officials occasionally deny atrocities and just last April a new government-approved textbook written by right-wing groups downplayed the wartime brutality visited on civilians...
...conclusions that few people would disagree with (war is terrible, racism is evil). Johnson is a less obvious subject and in some ways more complicated. Blackness is about race, even more blatantly than Baseball or Jazz, and yet Johnson was not self-consciously a racial hero. He would not kowtow to racists, but he also rebuffed Tuskegee Institute president Booker T. Washington and other black community leaders who chided him for fraternizing with whites...