Word: shun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fuel for the flame was the decision by the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) to continue to bar men from voting. Not that men ever cared before. In fact, they tend to shun the mysterious "R" like the plague, with the exception of that guy who attended the Women's Leadership Conference so he would look sensitive for the Rhodes Scholarship committee (it worked). But once they learned that some club somewhere was barring them from entry--that they were being honest-to-god oppressed--a bunch of men suddenly got incredibly indignant...
...purpose of an incentives program is not at all to shun senior faculty. Professors emeriti could still teach classes as they do now, if selected on the basis of their ability by their departments. But Harvard does need the enthusiasm and vitality of younger teachers, if only to inspire the same eagerness in its students...
...comes to dealing with the media, we are a nation of spin doctors. Afraid that our words will be twisted beyond repair, we never say what we mean. So we say as little as possible and adhere to a common code: Never admit anything. Always keep 'em guessing. Shun the exposure...
...after the most egalitarian of educations, for instance, women tend to be more nurturing than men and to need things like security and commitment in order to be happy. Men, on the other hand, tend to be more aggressive and authoritarian. They also tend to revel in insecurity and shun commitment. Despite the many obstacles encouraging women to the contrary, women tend to want children and the chance to stay at home with them; men tend to do better competing in the workplace because of their different needs and dispositions...
...their dead parents. "The teenagers, in particular, are caught in a squeeze," says Dottie Ward-Wimmer, a nurse at St. Francis who specializes in grief counseling. "They're older. They're smarter. They know that if their mother had cancer, people would feel sorry for them rather than shun them." Professionals at the Henry Street Settlement in New York City have found that if youngsters talk with one another about what they are going through, they are less likely to fall into self-destructive behavior. They also have an easier time adjusting to their new family...