Word: slavishness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...some of those in attendance were actually veterans themselves. "Blind faith in bad leaders is not patriotism," Anderson told the crowd. "A patriot does not tell people to refrain from speaking out in the name of politeness or for the sake of being a good host; or to show slavish, blind obedience and deference to a dishonest, war-mongering human-rights-violating president...
However, to achieve this goal, these American Africans must heed Garvey’s advice and abandon slavish allegiance to political parties which unabashedly exploit anti-black sentiment or fail to deliver on any of their promises made in black churches. Instead, they should pledge allegiance to programs of racial uplift worldwide. Black people should support President Bush in his efforts to save the lives of other black people, including those in Darfur, while vociferously condemning his efforts that hurt them, such as ending affirmative action, withholding money from global AIDS funding and overthrowing the democratically elected government of Haiti...
...imbibed a gallon of eggnog and hit on her brother, and snobby, demanding children home from Swedish boarding school, the comfort of Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen) is a great way for your mom to unwind. Aragorn’s hunky, old-fashioned persona, combined with his well-groomed beard and slavish devotion to his muse, Arwen (Liv Tyler), is more than enough to make up for another crappy holiday. Conveniently, LOTR: ROTK is available this week in a four-disc box set complete with over 50 minutes of footage not shown in theatres, which makes the film even longer than your...
...collection of stereotypes of Asian American men as effeminate, materialistic outsiders. The piece has enraged the Asian-American community, male and female, gay and straight. Most objectionable of all is the underlying assumption that it is race that dictates personality, that traits such as slavish imitation, “inscrutability” and “delicateness” are no accident, but the product of birth, and as intrinsic to Asian-Americans as their hair color. It is the racial basis of stereotype, and not any one specific stereotype, that is offensive; for example, a piece exploiting...
...economy is doing its part to make that happen, churning in the third quarter at a scorching 8.2% pace. Job production appears to be inching back, and consumer confidence is at its highest level in more than a year. Deficits are bad, White House aides concede, but slavish concern about them--which they associate with Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin--would have kept them from passing the tax cuts they argue are fueling the current boom. "All the fears of Rubinomics have not come to pass," says a senior White House official...