Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...such a victory would constitute a defeat. One crew member tells the captain, "Whatever you do -- if you do not retreat -- will result in a fiasco." ( The captain has grown increasingly pessimistic: "Any detailed study of an alien technology was futile. Its fragments, like pieces of a broken mirror, would not yield a coherent picture; they were the indistinct result, only, of the thing that had shattered...
...sorry. He deserved to be punished. How odd! This kind of guilt, this assuming of moral responsibility for one's actions, has all but vanished from public discourse. It is almost as if the closest glimpse the nation got of honor last week came from seeing it in a mirror: a man had acted with dishonor, saw it for what it was, and came forth to bear witness that there is indeed still a difference between right and wrong...
...invocation of history and "forced-draft urbanization and modernization" reminds me of the invocation of history by the Stalinists who destroyed a large part of the peasant class in the Soviet Union in the thirties, and the "forced-draft" ruralization by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia (a mirror image of "forced-draft urbanization"), after the U.S. invasion of that country. Such people can have whatever political opinion they want: I do not regard these opinions as science, merely political opinions and their implementations. Note how the word "modernization" occurs in a paragraph like the above, as well...
...touching reconciliation between the scorned lesbian and her lover melts into a discussion at the shelter which devolves into a sad yet comic aside when a wife-beater laments: "I don't wake up in the morning, brush my teeth, look in the mirror and say, 'I'm going to beat my wife today...
...again last week as the House, overwhelmingly, and then the Senate, after a stop-and-go drama, overrode Ronald Reagan's veto of the $88 billion highway bill. For a President determined to put the political damage from Iranscam in the rear-view mirror, the final 67-33 defeat in the Senate was an unwelcome reminder of his weakened political condition. But after months of lassitude Reagan put the full force of the presidency into his search for that elusive final vote. In fact, as jarring as the defeat was, it could end up strengthening the President: the personal energy...