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Word: rejectionism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women Can Make First Move | 1/30/1998 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Paradise Found | 1/19/1998 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Eric M. Nelson, | Title: Malevolent Benevolence | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 RMS W/VW BST BLK | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Peter A. Hahn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: At Home in Beantown | 12/5/1997 | See Source »

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