Word: shouting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more than two years later, my outlook has changed. I've been in too many sections where men shout out their answers and women hang back. I've talked to too many friends who were "token women" in high school activities, or who were discouraged from taking math and science. I've been told to "calm down" too many times when I've raised my voice slightly in justified anger or concern...
Readers be warned. The author won't be obscuring, for the sake of journalistic objectivity, his passion for the subject of this article. The Link deserves oodles more praise than any impartial, lifeless news story could ever provide. From the rooftops (or, even better, from its rooftop), he will shout whooping praises for The Link, Harvard's most recent and most intriguing building project. Not often has one structure satisfied so many with such intelligent design...
...along better. Everyone got along with Ashbery. Do you know John? These days he's a very suave, sophisticated character, but he seldom spoke at that time. We all admired his work so much and his brains, but then you had to stand next to him and shout to get an opinion. He was withdrawn, but he was funny. He was amusing...
...tonight, Nick seemed a little too... ominous. He's no run-of-the-mill character himself: he completely lacks all social graces, he never opens his shades, and for years has been trying to keep his ethnic identity a secret. ("I walk with all the people," he used to shout. When I told his mother this, she looked a little nervous and asked her husband if maybe Nick should see a psychiatrist.) I was a little suprised that Nick would have the insight to sense that, in his deranged world, I was 'not normal.' What could it mean...
...sitting in your "Myth of America" section, and the demure, totally glam English grad student asks you to analyze and describe the mythic aspects of an L.L. Bean ad. A first-year jumps up and starts to shout: "The frontier, Daniel Boone, Emerson, mythic contradictions, Poe as the anti-mother, Freud, Oedipus, Daniel Cooper..." He bites his tongue off and blood begins to spurt out of his mouth...