Word: mindset
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...works of Black writers should not be included in the pantheon of great books. Bloom was unyielding, and the student proceeded to rail against the ancients as white Anglo-Saxon protestants. The slip was for Bloom, and no doubt for many, proof of the unthinking mindset of many minorities who demand inclusion...
...have been quick to generalize in the past. Students of the 1980s, the media has incessantly told us, are materialistic and narcissistic, politically apathetic and obsessed with power lunches, three-piece suits, luxury cars and six-figure jobs. Such an image became so entrenched in the country's prevailing mindset that Time pronounced 1984 the year of the yuppie...
...This mindset leads the national media to characterize in cynical terms everything our generation does. Those high school students who apply to and attend the nation's "elite" colleges are doing so, we are told, not for the intellectual atmosphere such schools can provide us with, but rather for the connections they supposedly offer to the "corridors of power", in Washington and Wall Street. Ours has been the new "lost generation," influenced by the self-indulgence of the Reagan years, hopelessly corrupted by daily corruption in sports, business and politics...
UNFORTUNATELY, it's none of these. For what's most troubling about Character is Sheehy's cynical mindset, namely the assumption that today's candidates are inherently lying, pandering and manipulative bastards, trying to con the living daylights out of those malleable voters. Therefore, this self-serving mindset continues, voters should wise up, ignore what the candidates are saying, and treat what an "enlightened" few in the press say about them as gospel...
...mindset was more open this time for rough water," stroke John Amory said. "We were intent upon not losing again in bad conditions...