Word: resister
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...minutes, from Burd to Burris, Ronald and Nancy Reagan sat in the chapel. To the dismay of some veterans, it was the President's only participation in the week's salute, and on his way out of the chapel, he could not resist putting an ideological point on the proceedings: "We are beginning to appreciate that they were fighting for a just cause...
...these ideas provoke bitter opposition. "Nothing is really desirable to do," Greenspan admitted. Many Republicans strongly resist the idea of tax increases, and they apparently include the President. At his news conference, Reagan remarked that "more people working for a living today are paying a higher Social Security tax than they are income tax." His point: Social Security taxes are already a heavy burden on lower-income workers, and on the economy in general...
...inherently anti-feminist stance. Those members of society who still believe that a woman can never be president of the United States because of her physiology will find in the PMS defense ample support for their views. In light of the scanty evidence, then, we must vigorously resist blaming a woman's irrational behavior on her biology. Until much more data on PMS is available, we must continue to trace acts of violence like Santos's to aberrant emotions, rather than to built-in biological flaws...
...display that moved one audience member to bubble enthusiastically to him at intermission, "Wow, that was the most obscene thing I've ever seen in my life!" The sense of paralysis is properly stifling, but the show moves nowhere with commendable snippiness; both play with and director resist the urge to browbeat the audience, and things wind up in just over an hour...
Still, slang has deep resources. The French resist barbaric intrusions into the language of Voltaire and Descartes. But American English has traditionally welcomed any bright word that sailed in, no matter how ragged it may have looked on arrival. That Whitmanesque hospitality has given America the richest slang in the world...