Word: okay
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Many people in this intellectual community become outraged when the dword is mentioned. Dare I mention the word? Okay, brace yourself, here it is: discrimination. I am often confused by the muddled thinking which surrounds this word. Discrimination occurs constantly, in all facets of life. Harvard, for example, does not admit every student who applies--and for important reasons. Also, the military itself has certain physical and intellectual requirements for entrance. It must be made clear that the outrage caused by discrimination only properly applies to arbitrary or unjustified discrimination...
...going to put it in high gear, come on and play like we've done all year, and I think we'll be okay," Rueb said...
...never use the word home," he says. "I feel okay in the East Coast, I feel Okay in England, I feel Okay in the Caribbean. But at the same time I don't feel centered in any of those places. It used to be worrisome. As a kid I used to think there was some virtue in having a place, a town or street that you went back to that was your home. But I've come to terms with the fact that maybe for the job I do it's as well that I have a number of perspectives...
Phillips says the book's tone differs markedly from what he'd originally intended. When he conceived of the two characters, it seemed obvious to him which would emerge as the more sympathetic. Emily, filled with the racist and imperialist nations of her nation and era, was to be "okay, but, you know, a bit of a dick head at the end of the day;" Cambridge's final section would respond with a triumphant, militant condemnation of her arrogance, "kind of 'oh me, oh my, what a terrible institution this is, how dare they?;'" Phillips says...
...okay that you don't recognize these names. You may have a life. But the fact that I'd never heard of these people until this year's spring training began is instructive. When Helen Slater asked Billy Crystal in "City Slickers" who was the third baseman for the 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates. I shouted out "Don Hoke!" before Crystal could read his line...