Word: phrase
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...special feelings of pride. "What I remember most about the war is the movies," she says. "They were dozens of World War II movies, but they were so blatantly propagandistic. All the Nazis were portrayed as idiots, and the Soviets as great heroes. We had a phrase, kino nemetskoe, which is slang for a show so ridiculous you cannot believe it." Of the time after the war she says, "It was stable, we did not fear anything, there was not this tremendous sense of insecurity as now. The main thing is we do not know what will happen next here...
...knew, of utmost gentleness and decency, but at that last phrase one of the nonveterans bridled a little; nothing was said, but our histories slammed down between us once again. The three of us who'd served couldn't help falling into a certain manner and language when recalling those days. "You're doing it again," one of the others said to us at such a moment, with rueful good nature. We understood him, but the old covenant was too strong to resist, and too dear...
Fine, so I adore NPR. But I love my little brother too, and when he starts whining for four hours straight, you'd better believe that it gets on my nerves. If he continued to cavil at half-hourintervals every day for two weeks, the phrase"infanticide" would begin to lose many of itsnegative connotations...
...Using a phrase coined by Michael Zimmermanprofessor of philosophy at Tulane, Mack says hiswork challenges the notion of anthropomorphichumanism ," the idea that human beings are thehighest intelligence in the universe...
Harry & Teddy is a primer on those times and that TIME, which Kennedy, for one, believed was the most important force in American journalism until TV became a national medium. TIME in its dominance was a magazine with an attitude, summed up in Luce's phrase "the American century"-an era he trusted would be as Christian and Republican and triumphant as he was. White put it this way in his 1978 autobiography, In Search of History: "Freedom of the press, [Luce] held, ran two ways: His reporters were free to report what they wished; but he was free...