Word: mindedness
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Most gay people used to share these beliefs, and consequently understand others' fears: the fear of child molestation, sadomasochism, and hellfire; the fear of being considered "deviant" by others, and the anxiety provoked by wondering about oneself; the fear of "what they do in bed"; that pervasive discomfort on the...
A generation ago, atheistic empiricists like Harvard's Willard V. Quine were influential simply because "they were the brightest people," says Philosophy Professor Roderick Chisholm of Brown University, adding that now the "brightest people include theists, using a kind of tough-minded intellectualism" that was often lacking on their...
Worse perhaps than the verbal gaffe is Reagan's relentlessly simple-minded discussion of complex problems. He is aware that he is charged with this failing, and in his 1967 inaugural address on becoming Governor of California, he asserted: "We have been told there are no simple answers to...
Aside from the musical finish, it was a standard performance-moralistic, idealistic, enthusiastic, and always self-assured -by this year's most uncommon candidate, the liberal Republican maverick who started his campaign last June as John Who?, then nearly won the primaries in Massachusetts and Vermont and now enjoys...
The fashion dragons have declined in puissance somewhat since a decade ago, when Women's Wear Daily, the industry's bitchy bible, failed in its attempt to foist the midi-length skirt on recalcitrant U.S. women. Since then the customers have become even more independent-minded about their...