Word: oxymoronality
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Crimson Crazies? Please—that’s an oxymoron...
...just beginning to understand," says Jacqueline Whitmore, director of the Protocol School of Palm Beach, Fla., who has seen her business triple in the past three years. Faux pas often begin, etiquette experts say, with an overly familiar, laid-back style in locales where "business casual" is an oxymoron and first names are reserved for family and close friends. Polo shirts aside, the minefields are everywhere: skipping tea drinking in Asia, for example, and forsaking small talk to rush headlong into negotiations. In some parts of Asia and the Middle East, guests should never clean their plate; if they...
...Even ?The Corporation,? a fascinating lecture-epic whose main aim is to prove that the phrase business ethics is an oxymoron, uses some familiar faces: it begins with a quote from George W. Bush and ends with a call to arms by Michael Moore. ?The curse for me,? Moore says in the film, ?has been the fact that in making these documentary films, I?ve seen that they actually can impact change. So I?m just compelled to keep making them...
Home Edition (Sundays, 8 p.m. E.T.) is a TV oxymoron: a feel-good reality show. Without any participant's having to eat animal entrails or be insulted by judges, it has exploded in its second season into a Top 10 hit by presenting itself less as a home-improvement show than a life-improvement show. Each week the design team meets a family with a heart-wrenching story--disability, death, debt--and tailors a monster renovation to its needs. For the Vardon family of Oak Park, Mich.--two deaf parents with a blind, autistic son named Lance...
...living proof that the phrase scholar-athlete is not an oxymoron,” said Kemper Professor of American History James Kloppenberg. “I’ve been Tom’s adviser since the first week of freshman year, and the relationship has demonstrated to me how valuable it would be for senior faculty at Harvard to get to know students from the day they arrive, instead of only in their junior and senior years...