Word: oneself
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Plainness ran deeper than taste. It sometimes grew out of religious conviction--formal severity was built into the Puritan creed, for instance. But it also sprang from the social necessities of American life: the need to make and mend things for oneself, to fit and adapt to local materials. And it acquired a political dimension as metaphor...
Self-discipline: That's an intriguing notion. How little we hear of self-discipline in our indulgent and permissive society. Bill Bennett--perhaps America's greatest example of the value of a humane education--says that self-discipline means to be a disciple of oneself. "One is one's own teacher, trainer, coach and 'disciplinarian,'" Bennett says. Is this as fatuous as it sounds...
Both former politicians agreed that humor and the ability to laugh at oneself are necessary for survival in Washington...
...campus as diverse as Harvard's, is overwhelmed by the realization of just how big the world is, and how many different ways there are of living and of seeing things. One of the natural reactions to this sensory overload is to draw back in fear, and to comfort oneself by assuming that one's way of living and thinking are the only proper ways, and that different lifestyles are in some way inferior...
...theatrical system" and constantly waiting for directors, producers and actors to accept your material. Instead, Swados advocates creating one's own company and venue to get a piece of work performed. She argues that "theater can be made now by people who want to do it" rather than subjecting oneself to the "neurotic, cruel system" of "legitimate" theater...