Word: todays
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Strong also argues that kids are increasingly vulnerable and lost in today's world. They must grow up, "without the kind of family and institutional support that existed in the past...". This is the same excuse which has been used to account for everything from punk rock to eating disorders, and here Strong puts it to use again. But Strong differentiates between the piercing and tattooing culture which is becoming more prevalent and the kind of pathological body mutilation that her subjects suffer from. She says that the former is becoming more popular but stops short of saying that...
...Dartboard have no qualms with a little old-school nostalgia. Though Glenn's pioneering journey came well before our time, we all know heroism transcends generations. How many of our kids, three decades from today, would flock to Busch Stadium to see Mac take a few (feeble) cuts? Though Glenn's encore expedition may be scientifically trivial, it is just as heroic as his first...
...equal parts schmaltz, anger and righteous indignation. But Barnicle, the self-styled fighter for the downtrodden and voiceless, doesn't seem to realize he was in the wrong. In one rationalization of his behavior, he writes, "...reconstruction dialogue in a 1995 column is a clear failure to abide by today's standards. It was not always so but is now." The implication is that this 25-year veteran of the Metro page was taken by surprise by suddenly stricter standards. He also implies that the greater good accomplished by his column outweighed his occasionally cutting the corners of honesty...
...what a viola da gamba is-a string instrument more closely related to the guitar than the violin and its ilk, despite its name and appearance--and a discussion of the "softer side" of baroque music, explaining that baroque music was played at a softer volume than music today is. She then proceeded to play the quietest piece in the program, with a rich and hazy sound which made it almost hypnotic at times, ending with another unexpected finish...
...Today, we happily live in a society where most people consider "he" and "she" to be equal--as people, at least. As a pronoun, however, "she" still hits the grammatical glass ceiling while "he" runs rampant, masquerading as a "gender-unspecific pronoun" that represents both men and women. But the supposition that "he" or "his" may refer to both sexes is ludicrous, since study after study has shown that people of both sexes take this pronoun to refer exclusively to a male. The elusive "gender unspecific pronoun" represents a gap between the rules of grammar and the rules of society...