Word: rejectionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard women, you are beautiful. Yet a social myth is keeping many of you down: that most men are intimidated by women who ask them out. If the guy has any interest in you whatsoever, he will accept a date with you--otherwise it wasn't going to happen anyway...
Morrison traces the genesis of this brutal act back to the 1870s, when nine African-American patriarchs, ex-slaves in Mississippi and Louisiana, joined together, gathered their wives and children, picking up a few strays in the process, and headed west to settle in the Oklahoma Territory. Eventually, arduously, they...
Although Stich admirably documents the symptoms of this "trend," her diagnosis misses the point. She attributes the activist rejection of service to a "futile search for a bad guy," but sadly, there often seems to be something far more unfortunate at work: the search for victims, not to be helped...
Lately, some co-op boards have apparently rejected ostensibly qualified buyers--even buyers they wouldn't mind sharing the elevator with every morning--simply to add to the cachet of the building. In other words, a board member who paid $100,000 for an apartment in an A+ building during...
Whatever the motivations may be, a rejection of higher education or simply the resistance to limiting the group's fan base by specifying a target audience, the notion that the Bosstones deny their unbelievably tenacious link to college music scenes all over the country seems absurd. With the growing popularity...