Word: refrained
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This implication is and has been an excuse for those who have committed crimes against humanity; it is the constant refrain of murderers in Bosnia and Rwanda. By painting a picture of chaos and disorder, one obscures the very insidious and well-planned policies of political leaders that lead to the death and suffering of thousands. If no one is calling the shots in Kosovo, then no one is responsible for anything except what one does in his own house. Milosevic is not responsible for massacring Kosovars. NATO generals are not responsible for bombing civilians. No one is right...
This implication is and has been an excuse for those who have committed crimes against humanity; it is the constant refrain of murderers in Bosnia and Rwanda. By painting a picture of chaos and disorder, one obscures the very insidious and well-planned policies of political leaders that lead to the death and suffering of thousands. If no one is calling the shots in Kosovo, then no one is responsible for anything except what one does in his own house. Milosevic is not responsible for massacring Kosovars. NATO generals are not responsible for bombing civilians. No one is right...
Even though they may now be calling themselves "femaleists," they're still singing the same old feminist refrain: "We're not inferior to men. If anything, we're superior (so stop oppressing us by forcing us into outdated, limiting sex roles, you chauvinist men)!" Enough already! Instead of wasting time and energy exploding what remains of the old sex-role stereotypes, let's move on to the more difficult and important task of creating new, updated sex roles. Do we really need to determine who actually did the hunting in prehistoric times or prove that women have it in them...
...Yeah, Mom, I'm kind of sick. I have a cold and stuff. (At this point, I thought it wise to refrain from mentioning the fever and the constant fatigue.) I really have...
...sought to transform university education in the image of a diverse student body. We were left with a strong legacy of personality in the academy, sometimes clouding the classical format of scholarship. So much energy was spent making education more responsive to specific student identities that undergraduates could not refrain from infusing the personal into the academic. We all became more aware of our own cultures and histories as a result of the 1950s and 1960s, but perhaps the price was the clouding of our modern liberal individuality and scholarly judgment...