Word: momentous
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...spent nearly four years in a newsroom without direct sunlight, worked summers at a newspaper and a magazine, done all the right things, I thought, to lead me to this moment. Someone would call, offer me a job, and I would be on my way. But when the call came, I was being told, quite simply, that there was no way. I suppose being handed your obituary is difficult at any age. It turns out twenty-three is no exception...
...reason, it will not cut funding to some of its most helpless constituents. A portion of what it would have saved will be buoyed by the federal stimulus package and the new tax, but in the long term such dollars and cents thinking is beside the point. For a moment, policymakers need to put aside their pocketbooks and consider the quality of life of all their citizens...
Carried away by the throbbing Italian voice that filled the entire Bastille Opera house and hung quivering in the air, I forgot for a moment to pay any attention to the French subtitles displayed over the magnificent stage. When the voice died away and the silence was finally broken by thunderous applause and the oddly restrained enthusiasm of “Bravo! Bravo!”, I joined in and clapped till my palms stung, only noting (with a laugh to Thibaud) the absence of any American cheering or whistles. I was studying abroad in France at École...
...other around-the-clock political news stations definitely had their hands full this year. Along with the election of the nation’s first African-American president came many other important political controversies and watershed moments. In the year of change, we supported expanding freedoms in areas such as stem cell research and homosexual rights. We asked for more accountability among elected officials and backed a large stimulus to help jumpstart our economy. Most importantly, we believed—and still do—that Barack Obama was the correct choice for the 44th President of the United States.This...
...longer seem viable. Some will need to take what may seem like a detour but which could ultimately become a welcome new path. If there is one wish I have for this year’s graduates, it is that they see this fiscal crisis as a freeing moment in which, since professional expectations are low, they are free to create and imagine a life that does not have a name or an established path. Our society needs many of you, even if at first reluctantly, to look outside established career paths and seek ways to grow while helping...