Word: somethingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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One of Murden's former roommates and a second-year divinity student, Annie M. Bovian, said of Murden: "With her, her nature calls for her to do something a little over and above. She doesn't go at anything halfway."
Although "hockey was definitely an instant love," Trotman says, "in the long haul I think I'll prefer sailing because it's something I can do later."
The most popular ideologies of youth--punk negativism, resurgent capitalism, and new age intuitionism--all are inward-looking philosophies, aspects of a narcissistic time. Reagan's impermeable sheen, his success through avoiding responsiblity for anything, has become something to strive for.
It has been a curious time to grow up in America, and the answer of authority, as espoused by William J. Bennett (who will now redirect his no-saying from financial aid to drugs), was a call for a greater "moral discipline" or a return to the past. Of course...
A. He did spend his whole life in the public service, and I suppose the impression I had as a kid was that he was doing something that, in the cliche of the day, "made a difference." When he took over, the town was on the verge of bankruptcy, and...