Word: ordering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...coolness toward the Undergraduate Council candidates and other potential campus superstars, then, may stem more from confusion than pettiness. Rather than trying to sort out a campus-wide pecking order, we have chosen a bland but egalitarian alternative: A thousand flowers may bloom, but they shouldn't expect any special treatment because of it. The council elections, important though they may be, try to get us to deviate from this egalitarian solution. It is not surprising then that they should be met with an indifference often laced with hostility...
...feel downright extravagant. I am not bothered so much by the actual loss of money as by the mentality that fuels my spending. Why only order an appetizer when I'm out for dinner in order to save a few bucks? If I can afford it, why begrudge myself of immediate gratification and the pleasure of being rash? My concern, however, is with the accompanying attitude. Once I expect to eat out often and buy nice clothes, at what point does it stop? When does the extra $4 I spend on dinner become the extra $50 I spend on shoes...
...Scripture" was "pestilential heresy." There were more things than words to treasure in a London, as depicted by Ackroyd, full of Maypoles and processions and founts of sacredness, a city in which each day was significant in God's calendar. More knew the King's marriage would shatter that order with the force of apocalypse. And he was right. His England was swept away in the ensuing years, replaced by one that disavowed the old pieties while hungering for them...
Indonesia is sliding into darkness. The Nov. 22 killings were a first for Jakarta, but since late summer there have been more than 250 lynchings across the archipelago. The killings seem to be a product of fear, economic frustration and a breakdown of law and order as security forces are withdrawn from the provinces to cover demonstrations in the cities. In Sumatra recently a man was beaten and burned alive because he couldn't tell suspicious residents the precise address of a relative he was visiting. "The reality principle is breaking down," says Professor Sarlito Wirawan Sarwono of the University...
...establishment are promoting a politics of chaos to turn the clock back, away from the students' demands for greater democracy and a reduction in the power of the army. There is a precedent, and it is horrific: General Suharto came to power in 1966 as a man who reasserted order--but only after 18 months of anarchy and slaughter that left some 500,000 Indonesians dead...