Word: norms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This year's speakers are both departures from this norm of flawed but nevertheless worthwhile picks. We're thrilled about the choice of Vice President Al Gore, a beacon of integrity and intelligence amid the Clinton administration's legion of unethical cronies playing by Arkansas rules...
...whole thing is totally irrational," Martin said. "But the onslaught has now become the norm, so new developments don't faze...
While the violent acts of any Muslim, practicing or not , are blamed on all of Islam, Goldstein was depicted as a maverick, or even a lunatic. Thus, the massacre was reported as a departure from the norm. However, Goldstein's act of hate was not an isolated incident...
...History Department's lack of trainingprocedures is not the norm throughout the Faculty,however...
...opera (upon reflection, Carmen's violent death at the hands of her jilted lover makes her more palatable to society in general?) that so closely ties in with a central theme of Koestenbaum's book; opera's appeal to the "other" of society, to those who deviate from the "norm." As the surrogate voice of those who feared exposure and openness, such as closeted gays, opera liberated them, but also ultimately betrayed them, condemning the heroines with which they identified to tragic ends, reaffirming a morality ultimately...