Word: provokingness
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The stories we read when we were growing up have a profound effect on the way we view the world. I grew up on my mother’s old Louisa May Alcott novels, resulting in a slanted worldview in which, for example, cousin marriage is permissible. (One choice Alcott...
On the surface, “Everything’s Gone Green” might be mistaken for “Garden State”: it’s a thought-provoking comedy starring a twenty-something loner with a weird family, stagnant career, and girlfriend troubles. Indeed, based on...
There’s nothing less satisfying than a bad ending to a mystery novel—except one with no ending at all, only themes strewn about everywhere and an excessively long and unnecessary line of accusations made at an innocent and unknowing reader. It seems that in ?...
In exchange for a one-year gag order prohibiting Hicks from speaking to the press, he will be sent home by the end of May to serve the balance of a nine-month jail term - with seven years suspended - handed down at Guantanamo. The deal also prohibits Hicks from later...
Those within the Iranian leadership advocating caution and pragmatism would point not only to the dangers of provoking the West, but also to a relatively positive diplomatic outlook: The new U.N. sanctions are only a mild intensification of those previously adopted, and the debate over them revealed important rifts - not...