Word: proclaimingly
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...intend no ethnic slurs. I mean to suggest that chauvinist exhibitions become, themselves, a form of ethnic slur; Americans blaring pride in their origins somehow manage to insult themselves, to proclaim the ugliest stereotypes. We may be a nation of immigrants, but if you spike the punchbowl with too much booze and consequent stupidity, the results tend to encourage, in other Americans, feelings of covert ethnic loathing. We need to find more civilized ethnic displays...
...nonsmoking Americans - and in some big things, the largest of which was a deal in which each side agreed to dispose of 34 tons of weapons-grade plutonium. That pact, combined with one creating in Moscow a joint U.S.-Russian center to monitor missile launches, allowed Clinton aides to proclaim a "highly significant and unprecedented" breakthrough in the arms talks. And in some ways it is; 68 tons of weapons-grade plutonium is enough to create 8,000 Hiroshima-sized nukes, and disposing of the that is always nice, even if it will cost an estimated $5.75 billion...
...when you go to Annenberg and hear a cocky New Englander proclaim Boston the new center of the sports universe, as I did the other day, it's enough to make you choke on your ratatouille...
...crowd? Does a crowd have claims to legitimacy? Does it have more political significance than, say, a Zogby poll? If one person expresses a strong opinion on a subject, does the opinion become 200,000 times more valid if 200,000 people gather in the same place to proclaim...
...Swamp, I have come to think, capital punishment has lost whatever cautionary social force it had - its exemplary meaning, its power to proclaim, as it once arguably did, that some deeds are, in our fine and virtuous company, intolerable...