Word: straws
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...essay on her tenure at CRLS published in the magazine Phi Delta Kappan, Evans cited this battle with the School Committee—in addition to other actions that she deemed “micromanagement”—as “the last straw,” after which it was impossible for her to continue as principal...
Animal rights should be respected. But there are limits, and many activists have long surpassed them. When People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) launched its campaign comparing animal slaughterhouses to Nazi concentration camps that was the last straw. I have proudly joined the “I Hate PETA” facebook group and never looked back...
...revive his sales, Chen just hiked the prices of beer further. Now, that same Busch Light 30-rack costs $21, and six-packs run higher as well. Though it is in actuality a small price hike, it is in many ways the straw that breaks the proverbial student’s back. I can buy a 30-rack of Pabst Blue Ribbon for $14 at University Wine, and a 30 of Busch for $16. Psychologically, saving five-to-seven dollars per 30 is worth the walk up Massachusetts Avenue. And that’s not even counting the gain...
This ending is so completely unbelievable, so shamelessly ridiculous, that you and your friends will see what a sham romantic optimism really is. Afterwards, watch Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs and you’ll see quite clearly how conventional heterosexual relationships descend into shocking violence and degradation anyway. Then tell Magda how you really feel about...
...Dostoyevsky's The Possessed and referred to the burning of a village by radical anarchists: "The fire is in the minds of men, not on the roofs of houses." This is a familiar image to members of Bush's, and my own, baby-boom generation-incendiary idealism, soldiers torching straw huts with Zippo lighters in Vietnam, "destroying a village in order to save it." Bush, in the end, is a classic boomer. His was a speech that could only have been delivered by a member of our exorbitantly messianic generation. Our rhetoric has always been the rhetoric of freedom, framed...