Word: pshaw
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Here's a diagnosis: Harvard students suffer from an unfortunate mental disposition to conflate work and play. Now, some of you may be pshaw-ing and pulling out your tattered lexicons to inform us that, no, you know the difference between those two words, thank you very much. Fair enough...
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...Clinton's apparently winning re-election strategy is essentially to become a Republican. Clinton's conservative opponents see this as both an explanation and a consolation: even if he wins, they are prepared to claim a moral victory. There is obviously something to this, but there is a large pshaw factor as well. "Capture the center" is the usual game in politics, and Republicans have played it skillfully over the years. Once again, there seems to be a feeling that for a Democrat to play it just as skillfully is somehow cheating...
...what Quayle had to say on that larger subject is unobjectionable. "It's time to talk again about family, hard work, integrity and personal responsibility. We cannot be embarrassed out of our belief that two parents, married to each other, are better in most cases for children than one." Pshaw. Who would even attempt to embarrass anyone else out of such mild beliefs -- especially with that squeamish qualification, "in most cases...
There is no excuse for this. Other professions have meetings of unpredictable length and accommodate by not overbooking. Surgery and emergencies? Pshaw, the last time I squatted forever in a waiting room, it was for a dermatologist. The doctor keeps you waiting because he has power over you, like a bureaucrat in Bulgaria in the old days. Indeed, visiting the doctor's office is like a taste of socialism -- the crowded waiting room with little to read but hectoring posters, the feeling of helplessness, the endless forms to fill out. Which is ironic, since the typical doctor's office...