Word: thingness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even as a middle aged man and relegated to the ranks of simple farmhands, is the farms co-proprietor and a man of substance in the local black community. Lurie is unsure how to relate to Petrus: at first he seems determined to like him, the politically correct thing to do in the situation. But a shockingly violent incident involving Lucy changes everything. Suddenly Lurie is doubly disgracedfor his failure as a father to help his own daughter and for his abuse of the child-like student. Luries reaction to the incident is the opposite of Lucys. She resigns herself...
That's the worst thing about the whole exchange on the sidewalk. It brought out a bad side in me. I'm a nice person, damnit, and for this lady not to recognize me as such, for her to treat me as if I were rude, is just too much. I swear, I could have strangled her right then and th--never mind. As you can see, the rudeness is still hovering about me, so you'd best try to avoid me for the next couple of days, particularly if I'm speeding along on the sidewalk. Just...
...where they were from and what they thought was really important, but the minute placement tests came along, let alone classes and extracurriculars, everyone was holed up in their room, hard at work or hard at play, and the great intellectual college conversations you had dreamed of became the thing of nostalgia and viewbooks...
...think one thing that happened was that Jenn Monti played two different games," Delaney-Smith said. "She changed her game when she got angry. I think this team relies on the point guard to set the tone and I think Jenn's tone in the first half was not good...
...Department report, there is a so-called "digital divide" in America, with blacks and Hispanics having sharply lower access than their white counterparts. And, says TIME technology writer Joshua Quittner, Clinton's interest will draw much-needed attention to the problem. "This is good stuff - precisely the kind of thing the President ought to be doing," says Quittner. "Americans are guaranteed 'universal service' from the phone companies, and there's no reason the same shouldn't be true of Internet access...