Word: oneself
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whether intended or not, the logic of the root cause argument suggests one of two attitudes toward the unpleasantness: 1) despair, because root causes cannot be changed, or 2) moral ambivalence, because legitimacy necessarily accrues to those who fight with root cause on their side. One must not find oneself "on the wrong side of history...
...appearance, readers are apt to tell her that they could do with fewer explorations into the midnight of the mind. Says the author: "It is very difficult for the creator of a series character to realize that he is very much more real and important to readers than to oneself. I can fully understand why Conan Doyle tried so hard to kill off Sherlock Holmes." Even so, Wexford and Burden are more fully rounded than most series characters. They have lived through infidelities, family estrangements, affairs with suspects and the death of a beloved wife. Through their exploits...
...oddest aspects of the name game is the spreading practice of not identifying oneself on the telephone. It started a few years ago as a kind of compliment: it meant that you and your caller were good friends, and it made perfect sense if you talked with somebody a lot. But as the practice has grown, it has become more of a test: you are not only supposed to know the voice that you may not have heard for a month but to know it immediately. Any hesitation is apt to lead to a pained, "You don't even recognize...
...film is filled with heavyhanded symbols of societal oppression and the universal urge to free oneself from convention, and the director's major problem is that she cannot quite decide whether Mona is a person or a symbol. The fact that we learn nearly nothing about her personal history and that she rarely speaks or thinks would indicate that she is a metaphor, not an individual. But occasionally, Varda strays from her reservedly elegant direction and portrays Mona in human-dilemma situations. These are often very moving in themselves. For example, just as Mona begins to develop a believable emotional...
...missing in most of the budding politicos in this university, Undergraduate Council types especially, is some sense of personal integrity. Integrity not in the sense of sticking blindly to a cause, creed or ideals; that's called stubbornness. Integrity is having enough self-respect not to debase oneself before one's betters, no matter how much one might admire the person or could use his help. Displaying integrity may slow one's course on the fastrack of success, but it's the only defense against the kind of rationalization that can turn an ambitious person into the tool of some...