Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent book For Common Things: Irony, Trust and Commitment in America Jedediah Purdy '97 has written a sermon urging us to take seriously serious things. Above all, the author writes, acknowledge your responsibility to the communities you live in, then shoulder it. For those who want to argue, consistently, against this imperative, there are several vacant cabins in Montana. Jobs on Wall Street await those who do not debate the point. But probably most of us think that working for the common good is not an altogether bad thing. Some of us might admit as much in public...
Ideally, potential candidates would wait politely for their opponents to ready their platforms before launching into their own campaigns. But--as those have who have been there before say--the reality is that candidates who want a serious shot at the presidency must already have a core constituency in place when the gun goes off in mid-November...
...purpose corporate strategist--he delivers. The money. The marketing. The deals. He is revered for going toe-to-toe with Disney capo Michael Eisner, renegotiating the fledgling studio's five-picture deal with the Mouse Kingdom at a time when Toy Story had made Pixar the first serious threat to Disney's 60-year monopoly on big-ticket animated films...
...good time to ask the question--Tell me, do you consider yourself insane?--but when the time comes, Ted Kaczynski responds without hesitation. "I'm confident that I'm sane, personally," he says. "I don't get delusions and so on and so forth...I mean, I had very serious problems with social adjustment in adolescence, and a lot of people would call this a sickness. But it would have to be distinguished between an organic illness, like schizophrenia or something like that...
During her campaign, Wu made enemies of the government bureaucrats who had been regulating recycling. Perhaps not coincidentally, her co-op was charged with evading taxes in a case that is still winding through the courts. Wu denies the accusation and has no regrets about forcing Taiwan to get serious about recycling. "I established a genuine movement," she says, "and helped many people without a voice...