Word: tact
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said. Opening up new avenues of discussion is a noble pursuit. All too often on college campuses and in society as a whole people avoid issues that are uncomfortable, including many involving race relations. But Mansfield methods were clumsy and harmful. A crusade for open discussion requires tact as much as brute force...
...realism of Edward Hopper paintings. Five Oaks is a town where history no longer takes root. Industry is elsewhere. Spirits too have up and gone. People have dusty backgrounds and odd occupations. A Palmer neighbor is a retired airline dietitian; a young woman describes herself as a Con-Tact-paper decorator...
...melodramatic tone with eerie background music by Walter Schumann. A sense of looming danger pervades the movie, as a dramatic victory of good over evil slowly unfolds. The Night of the Hunter, written in 1955, is the forerunner of the modern horror film, but this movie retains its tact while keeping up the intriguing suspense...
...easily shocked, insisted there was no such thing as a "distinctively native American criminal class, except Congress." In 1906 Henry Adams, whose own father and grandfather had served in the House of Representatives, somewhat disapprovingly quoted a Cabinet member as follows: "You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout...
...exemplified by Wilson, then, postfeminism is getting along with men without selling oneself short. It is taking responsibility instead of fixing blame. It is partnering and, yes, accomodating the male ego, while still trying to make progress toward equal rights. It is tact instead of confrontation. It is marriage instead of divorce...