Word: rejectionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"There are times I've been rejected that would spin your head around," says Damon. "You wouldn't believe I sat there and let people say stuff like that to me." Before The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting--the one-two punch that threw him into the spotlight and led...
Most children are like dandelions; they thrive if given half a chance. Some are more like orchids. They do fine while young enough to be nurtured by loving parents, but wilt as adolescents subjected to peer competition, bullying and rejection, particularly in big high schools. Research shows that while only...
The musical, which opened last week at Manhattan's Lincoln Center, makes a good case for the art-song approach but something less than a good musical. McDonald emotes powerfully and sings beautifully as the title character, the voodoo-practicing daughter in a family of mixed-race Creoles, who sets...
But the rejection of this appeal may not be much of a weathervane when it comes to the Justices' final take on the topic, says TIME senior writer Adam Cohen. "When the Supreme Court decides not to take a case, you can't really tell what the impetus may be...
The narrative is told through David Lurie, a divorced, passionless professor of English Literature whose seduction of one of his colored students precipitates a train of events that leads to him losing his job, his reputation and his lifestyle in Cape Town. Although Coetzee does not overtly mention the proceedings...