Word: lovingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many times have we heard it before? The alleged slogan of the "younger generation" is "MAKE BUCKS, NOT LOVE." The younger generation is marked by materialism, "somberness," and "deglandularization." We have no passion. We have no idealism. We have no politics. Last week, Michael Blumenthal joined the ever-growing consensus that all us '80s kids are unromantic, apathetic, "dollar-sniffing" jerks...
...start with Shakespeare: "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" is one of the more romantic lines of the more romantic sonnets of Shakespeare. Blumenthal uses the line as a possible theme for the '80s generation, one that refuses to idealize love and lovers. The poem goes on to list a variety of perfect qualities the mistress (or possibly, male lover) does not have...
...poem ends with the couplet, "And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare/ as any she belied with false compare." Shakespeare says that it is not more romantic to idealize some creep than to love someone for one's imperfections. Didn't Blumenthal get to the end of the sonnet? Isn't it a good thing to look below the surface...
...income. I wanted to be June Cleaver; you know, 'Honey, I'm ho-ome!' " But they soon became disillusioned by the surprisingly high cost of living -- including what they call "sneak taxes" on housing, autos and services -- and convinced that opportunity knocks louder back in Southern California. "I'd love to take our house and lake with us, but I can't wait to get back to the whole Southern California scene," Terry Maxwell said as she left last month...
...League kind of student, and I don't get into the social atmosphere as much as some people here," he says. "I can't say that I love the school, but I can say without question that I love every person in the hockey program, every player and every coach. I'd go through a wall for any oneof them. I think a lot of us feel that way. And Ithink that's why we were so successful last year...