Word: obey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Students "are required to obey the instructions of officers of the University," Epps told the audience, instructing them to "desist in shouting" or "leave the room...
...Pell Grants, Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants, state block grants, Guaranteed Student Loans and virtually every other federal education program draws lessons from the 65-page report that include the need for consistent school discipline policies, "hard work" on the part of students, rigorous textbooks, and regular homework. Translation: obey rules and do your homework. Nobody is disputing these values; but they should not be a substitute for instituting programs. And if this is the theory behind the practice, it seems a poor cover-up for cutting federally funded programs--especially those for the underprivileged, whose effectiveness has been emphasized...
...Offred's narrative is beguiling in the extreme. Imprisoned in "a pampered life," her own survival hanging on her ability to obey and reproduce, she surreptitiously reveals the play of intelligence and curiosity that has been forbidden to her sex. She has a keen eye for daily routines in the old Victorian house, located in what was apparently once Cambridge, Mass. She notes the costume she must wear, a Handmaid's uniform, when she is allowed to go out shopping: "Everything except the wings around my face is red: the color of blood, which defines us. The skirt is ankle...
...Massachusetts drinking age of 21. Strict enforcement of the drinking age on campus has caused students to seek their weekend fun elsewhere. And because B.C. police have no jurisdiction outside the campus of the Chestnut Hill school, administrators have taken it upon themselves to see that students obey the new laws...
...Daniel Dayan and Elihu Katz examine the media's responsibility for the performance-as-reality, recalling how Charles and Di's royal nuptials were transformed into a product for public consumption by the mass invitations sent out via television, the "class equalizer." Roland Barthes's "I Hear and I Obey..." goes to obscenity's other extreme, reducing audience participation to instinctive impulse. Guido Crepax's comic strip, "The Story of O," illustrates how it is in the insidious positioning of narrator and audience that pornographic outrage finds expression; as Barthes observes from the sidelines, O's sexual organ...