Word: rejection
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...write" is not only to do these things. It is to be involved in the process of doing these things, and in one's incarnation as a writer to fully become these processes and to make them human each time, to reject formula, to hate the sclerotic...
...third suggestion, the Overpowering Assumption, I think, is best. But not for the reasons he suggests--that the assumption is so cosmic that it might be accepted. It is rarely "accepted;" we aren't here to accept or reject--we're here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we all like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret...
...reject tyranny in practice because no one possesses the wisdom and justice to exercise it beneficently. But why should we reject it in theory? If we care only about physical safety and material luxury, there is no reason to reject tyranny in theory. If we care about honor, however, we will reject even a beneficent tyranny...
...into a crash dive. At the very least, they say, a global-warming treaty must impose strict cutbacks on poor, developing countries as well as on rich, industrial nations. Otherwise, they argue, the U.S. will face unfair competition from foreign corporations. Indeed, the Senate voted unanimously last summer to reject any treaty that let developing nations off the hook...
...conservatives but also caused grumbling among otherwise sympathetic board members. And Angela Oh, a Korean-American attorney, had wanted to broaden the board's discussions to talk about all races, but Franklin declared that the main issue was still black and white. "Some members have very strong views that reject all others," complains another member. "This is dead wrong...