Word: mantras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, a new oral history of the movement: "In the mature sense of the word community, you can make a case that there really wasn't much of one for a great many gays before AIDS." Thus it has become almost an incantatory mantra within gay circles to say the catastrophe "has not been without its gifts...
They say it over and over again. It becomes their mantra. "Our Next President, Our Next President." Squeezing their eyes shut, and trying very, very hard, the delegates can almost make themselves believe...
Immediate courtship of Perot loyalists maywork, Peterson said. But he suggested that, facedwith the initial disappointment with theircandidate's unexpected exit, his supporters mightnot yet be ready to listen--even to thenow-familiar mantra of change...
...describe orientation week as an "ordeal," or at least call it "weird." They find the placement tests too challenging, idiotic and numerous, and the ice-breaker events too shallow. The hi-what's-your-name-where-are-you-from-what's-y our-dorm-well-nice-to-meet-you mantra grows old very quickly, and the days become a blur of cookouts, sweaty parties and fierce scamming...
More than 25 years have passed since Martin Luther King Jr. told America his dream and Lyndon. B. Johnson stood in Congress and stated the civil rights mantra: We shall overcome...