Word: seldomly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...back, but seldom forward." commented one of the leads at the beginning of Merrily We Roll Along, Stephen Sondheim's backwards musical about a man (Frank) who has it all and hates himself. The first scene occurs in 1979, the last in 1957. In between, audiences at the Agassiz Theater this January were treated to consistently great acting, some good singing hysterically funny, dated costumes...
Strange: we know that plagiarism may be fatal to reputation. But it is seldom so savage that it actually kills the writer. Plagiarism is usually too squalid and minor to take a part in tragedy; maybe that was the suicide's true shame, the grubbiness. Plagiarism proclaims no majestic flaw of character but a trait, pathetic, that makes you turn aside in embarrassment. It belongs to the same rundown neighborhood as obscene phone calls or shoplifting...
Finally, the stereotypes. My God, 90% of white South Africans go through a lifetime without entering a black township! I came to New York City, where I lived for a time, and found that a majority of white Americans seldom set foot in a ghetto. They know nothing about the real life of black people. They react to what they see on television. I know because that is the way they reacted...
...Seldom has a warning been so baldly ignored. Back in 1926 the nonprofit College Board introduced the Scholastic Aptitude Test with a cautionary observation: "This additional test," said the board, "should be regarded merely as a supplementary record. To place too great an emphasis on test scores is as dangerous as the failure properly to evaluate a score...
...female circumcision but feel powerless to stop a practice so entrenched in custom and tradition. Many organizations are campaigning against it, and the new African Charter on the Rights of Children includes items condemning circumcision. Governments in Sudan and elsewhere have passed laws against it, but they are seldom enforced...