Word: tended
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what is individualistic about a Million Man March or a Promise Keepers' gathering? There is none of the melodrama to it that we associate with introspection or life-changing decision-making. We tend to think of individual choices as private choices, made in the security of our homes or in close conversation. It is hard to imagine resolving to be a good dad at a rock concert...
...taxpayer-funded vouchers as a centerpiece of their proposals. Conservatives want them for people of any income who would send their children to private schools. As it happens, that idea gets a lukewarm reaction from a lot of white suburbanites, the same people most likely to vote Republican. They tend to like their public schools, which are generally well funded and supported by lots of parental involvement. A plan to use their tax dollars to send somebody else's kid to somebody else's academy doesn't get them very excited. But vouchers unite two activist segments of the G.O.P...
...schools themselves, while certainly not resistant to hav-ing money thrown at them, tend to cling tenaciously to the principle of local control. In a poor neighborhood the public school system is often the biggest employer. Teachers, administrators and school-board members desperately want to keep their positions, even if they aren't doing a good job, and quite often there is very little pressure on them to do better...
...vision of a heavily sanitized and overrational future is perhaps inevitably more chilly than chilling. And since emotion has been bred out of most of the people he's concerned with, the movie's relationships--notably a romance between Vincent and a co-worker played by Uma Thurman--tend to be distant and not very involving...
...agree with you Oni, but I think I also tend to throw myself into the work, especially now, just to make it through...