Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...opening period saw five penalties, and all three goals were scored on the power play. Harvard struck first on the man advantage when a sharp slapshot from Ruggiero at center point sailed past Roberts...
Freud's ventures into culture--history, anthropology, literature, art, sociology, the study of religion--have proved little less controversial, though they retain their fascination and plausibility and continue to enjoy a widespread reputation. As a loyal follower of 19th century positivists, Freud drew a sharp distinction between religious faith (which is not checkable or correctable) and scientific inquiry (which is both). For himself, this meant the denial of truth-value to any religion whatever, including Judaism. As for politics, he left little doubt and said so plainly in his late--and still best known--essay, Civilization and Its Discontents...
...also, just because of that, we are unable to walk. We want to walk: so we need friction. Back to the rough ground!" Where before he had favored explicit logical rules, now he spoke of language games, governed by tacit mutual understanding, and he proposed to replace the sharp boundaries of set theory with what he called family resemblances. "Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language," he declared, and language bewitches us by enticing us to concoct "theories" to solve philosophical problems that arise only "when language goes on holiday...
...they shared a certain wanderlust, an indifference to boundaries. Crick had migrated from physics into chemistry and biology, fascinated by the line "between the living and the nonliving." Watson had studied ornithology, then forsook birds for viruses, and then, doing postdoctoral work in Europe, took another sharp career turn...
...number that exploded over the next decade as baby boomers reached sexual maturity. Better formulations were soon developed to minimize the danger of blood clots and other worrisome side effects. But some health risks could not be foreseen, and as the 1980s dawned, bringing with it AIDS and a sharp increase in other sexually transmitted diseases, the smart new sexual freedom that the Pill permitted started to seem not so smart. As a result, the humble condom made a comeback in the '90s. As did abstinence...