Word: prowess
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scholar who in 1991 wrote in the neo-eugenicist journal Mankind Quarterly that "the Caucasoids and the Mongoloids are the only two races that have made any significant contribution to civilization." Then there's J. Phillipe Rushton, a Canadian psychologist who suggested in 1986 that Nazi Germany's military prowess was connected to the purity of its gene pool. A rogue's gallery of scholars, to say the least...
...what a mascot it is: the Angry Pilgrim. It would seem that the Angry Pilgrim would be an unfortunate mascot choice for a sports team, considering that Pilgrims were not known primarily for their athletic prowess or martial virtues. And they probably wouldn't have approved of football anyway...
With a hallucinatory power, he captures for us the contradictions of Henry's character. Even though he himself is not able to do this by merit of his acting alone, though his prowess as a director he creates a wild sense of the oppositions embodied within Henry...
...hostile to his family's overtures during the creation process; both relent in the face of the beloved's tender words. The earlier doctor seeks glory in a way that Branagh's does not, permitting an audience for the actual reanimation process to prove his sanity and prowess. None of the creators can summon the demented courage of Shelley's doctor to choose science over their human life. This is a reflection of the horror in which Shelley held the act of human creation: it necessarily meant selling one's soul to pursue such a dark...
...multitude of other administrators, is depicted in this cartoon? On the surface, I could dismiss it as college students poking fun at the administration. Or, I might wonder if the artist unintentionally used Dean Epps in this sexual cartoon because of all the beliefs surrounding the sexual prowess of the Black male in American society. I could even suggest that, instead of it being a Freudian slip of the brush (pen), the Lampoon artists and the board blatantly used a racial stereotype, knowing its offensive ability...