Word: pent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...simultaneously from looking at modern art and listening to his therapists: the principle that art could ultimately depend not on acquired talents but on inner resources, no matter how disturbed that inner life was." But could you make major art based largely on pent-up mythic fictions from outside your own cultural frame...
...They decided the idea was so brilliant that they wrote down the bare bones of the performance and took it on the road, producing it throughout the known world before retiring and turning the script over to those who need it most; namely, pre-midterm college students with a pent-up urge for nose-thumbing...
...another woman had led many to presume that he was hard-hearted, if not a murderer (and they kept hacking his name off her Yorkshire gravestone). That was until the sudden and unassuming launch of "Birthday Letters" earlier this year, in which Hughes finally let loose all the pent-up feelings about his former love the only way he knew how -? through poetry. "I see you there, clearer, more real/ than in any of the years in its shadow/ as if I saw you that once and never again," he wrote. "You were a new world. My new world...
Here at Harvard, where black-tie doesn't mean camo cumberbunds and worn-down Redwing boots, hunters are a rare breed. (Although picking off squirrels with super-soakers may have a visceral appeal to students seeking an outlet for pent-up midterm anxiety.) In the city of Boston, there's a general shortage of gun-racks, camouflage jumpsuits, Winchester rifles, and taxidermists, none of which would harmoniously coincide with a cityscape of red-brick buildings and sculptured topiaries...
What's caused these jabs at one of the sacred cows of Democratic politics? In part it reflects parents' pent-up demand for the very changes to public education--school choice and, in a larger sense, classroom accountability--that teachers' unions have consistently resisted. "There's broad frustration and even antagonism out there," says Joe Nathan, director of the Center for School Change at the University of Minnesota. "Americans perceive unions as people who put the interests of their members first. They don't feel the unions pay enough concern to getting rid of ineffective teachers. They see unions...