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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...issues of diversity were aired over and over. Some comments, apart from being unconstructive, were alarming for their insensitive, nearly racist language. Said representative Chris McFadden, "Diversity is fine in the classroom, but nobody wants it in their bedroom." Another representative chimed in with the well-thought out phrase, "If you want diversity, look for it on your own." And the comment that brought down the house: "Personally, I hate diversity." Despite 14 out of 28 votes for total randomization, the Student Affairs committee decided to present a proposal to the University that continued the status...
...remarkably consistent. Again and again, Auchincloss describes pale people who turn their faces, shuddering, from the modern world. His male protagonists are weak and bloodless, his women lumpy and conflicted. As a class, they have even lost their ability to breed. "A virgin to both sexes" is a confessional phrase used more than once, wryly but without regret, by his heroes. Some of them still have money -- old, of course, because latching on to new money would require the burgerlich rapacity that their great-grandparents successfully hid. If they have professions, they are likely to be lawyers, ineffectual but tolerated...
...thing is, she had become sick with diarhea in the middle of the race, but continued in her fight. With her lunch literally running down her leg--to phrase it as nicely as possible--she crawled to the finish line...
March 1967: McCoy says, "Dammit, Jim, I'm not a bricklayer, I'm a doctor!" First variation of this phrase...
...When you proclaimed the right to self-determination, it sounded noble and progressive, although not everyone cheered. Your own Secretary of State, Robert Lansing (you never did like him) predicted that the concept would lead to unfulfillable expectations and large-scale violence. "What a calamity," he wrote, "that the phrase was ever uttered...