Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...belligerent P. Randy Seybold '01 demands that "making out means kissing. Period." Jimmy J. Meeks '01 enforces the more sexual meaning of "to hook up," saying that "hooking up definitely implies a horizontal position." And in addition to the general perception of "making out" as a lesser act, there is a certain stigma connecting the expression to the late 1950s and drive-ins, or as Sam T. Mouton '01 angrily declares, "Making out is so Junior High." Allison C. Connolly '01 agrees that "it's very seventh grade--it was big time in seventh grade, like second base...
...coincidence that Puffy's ascendance into the echelons of the business world could only come in the areas of music and, to a lesser extent, sports and cinema. These are the spheres blacks have always been limited to in their quest to "make...
...remember what I did [during a given performance], something is really wrong. I set myself the goal that I damn well better remember at the end of the year what I did, or otherwise I shouldn't be doing it." He shrugs off criticism of his experiments with "lesser" genres: "Where do these designations like 'You are a classical musician, you can't do this' come from? The way people think of classical music is probably 50 years old. When we think of German music today, we think it is heavy, deep and conservative. If you look at the time...
...Paris-based painter Romaine Brooks. Her literary acquaintances were similarly eminent (and, in many cases, similarly "deviant"): Hall's partner Una Troubridge first translated the sexually daring French author Colette's works into English; Hall and the English playwright Noel Coward wrote each other into their works; and no lesser lights than the writers of the Bloomsbury Group--including Virginia Woolf and E.M. Forster--entered the story when they came to the defense of The Well of Loneliness...
When I asked my father about it, he told me that Black History Month is something like the lesser of two evils. Taking a month to instill pride by educating young black children about black heroes and black contributions to society is better than no month at all. I understand this reasoning, and I applaud the efforts of the black community to (once again) make something with almost nothing. If it weren't for Black History Month, there would be a lot more people thinking they know American history without knowing the names Harriet Tubman, George Washington Carver or even...