Word: lashings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tells him so. Each of them tries to enlist the support of a third friend, Yvan, who has other things on his mind, mainly his approaching wedding. In the brief 90 minutes that French author Yasmina Reza's play takes to unfold, the three will debate modern art, lash out at each other with insults they will later regret, and generally explore the nature of their shaky friendship...
Today, in a world in which democracy and the free market have come to take widespread hold, indignant would-be activists lash out at apathetics, who have always been and always will be apathetic, instead of picking up a bullhorn and a picket. In times of desperate turbulence like the '30s and '60s, the apathetics were never the enemy because there were more pernicious adversaries; the enemy was and always should be those fighting on the other side, and not those simply doing nothing...
According to Frank J. Gorke '99, a student activist involved with planning the Democracy Teach-Ins, this sort of back-lash is even present in some activists and has led to a more moderate activist front...
...article presented just one facet of the abundant case the Board has amassed in its audit of Campbell's administration. Throughout the semester, he proved unreliable, inefficient and apathetic to the Board's various ventures and travails. When confronted about his consistent absenteeism, he would often lash out unexpectedly with offensive language and personal attacks on other Board members. The Board had little choice but to give him repeated second chances, as we were in the process of restructuring and could not afford such an upheaval...
...certainly all these things pale in comparison to what it must have been like to be a slave or a black American in the '50s. Even in my most painful and profound encounters with racism, I have never felt the lash of a whip, or been used as a breeding machine, or been spit on for trying to enter a whites only school. Does this mean we have made progress against the foe of racism? Not nearly enough, as I see it. Because even though I may not know the smart of the whip any more than a white person...