Word: orly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"We are not in panic mode or anything, but we want to make sure we are winning games that we are expected to win," Moore said. "We're looking forward to getting back on the winning trail because we want to make winning a habit."
With Undergraduate Council presidential elections on the horizon, the council may be putting the most important question about its future in the hands of the students. The pressing issue won't be deciding between the next Progressive or Pragmatist President, but rather the size of the council itself. If successful...
The fact is, students have no basis upon which to trust the decisions made by students they didn't vote for, or who were the only game in town.
The premise is intriguing: Scarry claims we imagine best when guided word by word, as in great literature. Whatever we imagine without this guidance is dull and unsatisfying compared to the detail and life our imaginings attain under the tutelage of Homer or Flaubert (two of Scarry's favorite examples...
In the world of literary criticism, as long as one can cite examples, one's ideas will have validity. Scarry quotes liberally from some authors (like Homer and Flaubert) and occasionally from other poets or novelists to support her airy-sounding ideas. But the skeptical reader's sensibilities will hesitate...