Word: movement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rhodes scholarship, Clinton, at 32, became Governor of Arkansas. The single-minded rise to political power is a timeless story, but Clinton's came with the distinctive trappings of his era: the scruffy beard and antiwar protests while at Oxford, the experimentation with pot, the civil rights movement sensibility and the feminist wife who kept her name--at least initially...
...moms and dads on the front lines, such concerns are academic. They want to get their kids over the potty hump with as little disruption as possible. And despite Rosemond's contention that they're going about it all wrong, his "back-to-grandma" movement hasn't yet attracted much support. Says Becky Tamblyn Pence of Crystal Lake, Ill., mother of Emily, 5, and Michael, 3: "There are so many things to fight about just to get through the day. At least let them have control over this...
Consider the current movement to have school-age children fingerprinted just in case the police-department coloring books fail to thwart abduction. Ever try to fingerprint a seven-year-old without having her ask why? (She might even ask a more troubling question: How likely is it that a fingerprint would help you locate an abducted child...
...some say dictatorial--18-year regime of I.O.C. head Juan Antonio Samaranch is doubtful. But the investigations will reveal certain things: that the leaders of S.L.O.C. were not present-day saints, that Samaranch is either delusionary or hypocritical to a Clintonesque degree, and that the relationship between the Olympic movement and the U.S. involves good measures of fear and loathing--fear that the money will go away, loathing for the other guy's values...
...recent past, still refers to black people as coloreds and maintains a subtle quota system whose goal is not human equality but the appearance of social justice. The elevator bosses take their leisure at riotous banquets where the entertainment consists of humiliating minstrel shows. The civil rights movement, in Whitehead's parallel universe, either never happened or has been reversed. Either way the effect is eerie, suggesting that the path to freedom is not inevitable and never has been...