Word: lived
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only natural to feel nostalgic about the events of one's youth, but somehow I don't think members of my generation will get misty-eyed nothing the 20th anniversary of, say, the Shuttle explosion or the Live Aid concert...
...expert in the use of unwarranted assumptions comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question on Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all intellectual fronts. After all Hume did not live in a vacuum...
...come to him, her young children answering the question "How much do you love me?" with an eager "A pound of sugar!" Davies recalls all these sights and sounds -- so horrifying, so beautiful -- and, with his unflinching style, turns anecdote into artistry. The distant voices still live...
...kneel to kiss the ground. Others weep as they unload furniture, suitcases and sacks stuffed with possessions and pile them on the station platform. Military marches and battle cries of the Ottoman Empire blare from loudspeakers. A man shakes his fist at the distant Bulgarian hills and shouts, "Long live Turkey! This is the happiest day of my life...
...being a "model minority," with low crime and high SAT scores. "To me," he says, "being stereotyped as superhuman is just another kind of dehumanization. What I love about America is its tradition, not so much of blurring distinctions or subsuming cultures as of different cultures coming to + live together side by side. If I have children, and I hope I do, I would be pleased if their mother happens not to be of Chinese descent. The child who is a mixture of different types represents the world's future...