Word: swelled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Well, it would be lovely if the political dialogue could be conducted totally in terms of the general welfare, with no invidious arguments that seek to divide Americans from one another. And it would be swell if no politician ever suggested that an opponent was serving class interests that differed from those of the voters being addressed. But that is not the world we live in. In the real world, Republicans have been skilled and ruthless practitioners of class warfare themselves. "Us vs. them" has been the Republican theme in every recent election, and it has usually worked. Indeed...
...Before, something would happen and people around here would start to get nervous," said Malibu stockbroker David Mizrahi, setting off on foot across a bridge closed to car traffic because of cracks. (If this had been a movie, the sound track would swell about now with the scraping of mud shovels and the rush of tributaries newly sprung to life.) "This time, after going through the quakes and the fires and the other floods, everyone just threw up their hands and said let it happen, we'll deal with the consequences later...
Unless you happen to be a tribal elder with a taste for geological metaphors. To the old chief, Tristan is the rock everyone "broke themselves against," and a good thing too, since from their suffering he gains "his honor and a long life." Swell, but we're left with our stifled laughter and a very long movie...
...preliminary swell of the third wave is crashing in now: the computer- driven Information Age, when people no longer trudge off to factories or offices but sit at home in "electronic cottages," using their modems and faxes and keyboards to cruise cyberspace. These voluntary shut-ins are not merely customers anymore but "prosumers" using and adding to the daily flow of data. Synergies run rampant. The world is becoming the oyster of computer literates...
That things in Mass Hall were swell...