Word: onwardness
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...like to tell them to get lost. But in America we've seen a serious erosion of the right to be cranky. Ordinary grumpiness has been marginalized by blatant moodism, symptomized, pathologized, made to seem like a bad thing. Oprah is to blame for this, and the whole Onward & Upward, Little Engine That Could industry that has made smiliness obligatory. Look at the Clintons...
...Didn't happen. Sixty-seven this year, Jerry Lee Lewis refused to die. What Tosches wrote in 1982 about Lewis in 1962 pertains today: "Still he pumped onward, roaming the country in a dirty Cadillac, howling of the fire and the shaking, seeking his own vague salvation, indomitable." Perhaps God or the Devil has other plans for the Killer. Or perhaps Jerry Lee sees them still wrasslin' for his soul, and as referee he refuses to call off the match...
...French and Indian Wars, with additional target practice from hunting, and preparation as part of the town’s training band. Instead of driving the British away like sheep, the Lexingtonians sustained heavy losses, killed only two British soldiers, and did not prevent the British from marching onward to Concord...
...Yasin’s mother, who is mostly of Irish-American descent, at UCLA. Yasin was born in Chicago, and has subsequently lived in Indonesia, suburban Chicago, Southern California, and finally Scituate, Mass., where he attended the small town’s public schools from the sixth grade onward...
Detailing her methods of construction and her chronological progression, von Rydingsvard addressed around 200 students, faculty and guests at the Carpenter Center last Thursday evening. Presenting her work from the 1970s onward, von Rydingsvard narrated slides of her work that depicted the process of building and eventually the completed product. She revealed the work to the delight of the audience reacting to the beauty of various pieces catching sunlight in sculpture gardens or on private land...