Word: nessã
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...indifference—or, at least, blasé inured-ness??to real violence that some of these stories contain is also troubling. It is one thing to set off violence in quotation marks, as it were—to foreground the kinds of grisly scenarios that television, movies, and video games cynically use to pique our voyeuristic interest for profit. However, there is a point at which one has to question whether the ironic distance implied from what is described renders these stories sufficiently interesting to justify its disturbing presence...
...advice of our very own female social geniuses, women’s final clubs and sororities. I need not reiterate the incident of a few months ago, in which it was revealed that the Isis club judges its punches based on their level of “vanilla-ness??. The editorial is asking women’s groups to seek help from groups based upon a social ideology that they are trying to combat: exclusion. As penniless and homeless as the sororities and women’s final clubs are reported to be, they thrive on their exclusivity...
...director of the Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership, David R. Gergen, predicted that over the next few years, “joint-ness?? will be the catchphrase as record numbers of students seek concurrent degrees...
...discover their mutual love of tennis, and end up playing in a series of charity tournaments. But between tournaments, Danny somehow manages to lose his gig on a TV show; Gary never really has a job, and handles his unemployment with a kind of eastern “guru-ness?? reminiscent of Thomas Haden Church’s well-meaning sidekick character in “Sideways.” Despite its flaws, “Tennis, Anyone?” does have some very clever moments. Maeve Quinlan’s Siobhan Kelly, the celebrity interviewer...
...masochism, the Russians have a curious affection for gangly words. These march across the pages with all the ostentation of our public during a time of war. For example, digest the word shapkozakidatelstvo if you can. Literally, it means “tossing-caps-up-in-the-air-ness?? and connotes an arrogant faith in victory or success. It’s the kind of brilliant expression you can get bladdered on (and no doubt, this is a very Russian thing to encourage). But can you imagine them militantly lined up in a dictionary, all waiting...