Word: tokening
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...radio stations said they couldn't play me because they already had another singer-songwriter on their playlist," McLachlan says. "In this case it was Tori Amos. That was very marginalizing because our music is completely different. They were saying, 'Go away--we've added our token female this week...
...couple classes where it seems like it's this token thing [professors] have to do," says Elizabeth R. Beasley '98, a social studies concentrator...
...demands from its soldiers an old-fashioned marriage, a vow to love, honor and obey. Love, full of sacrifice and hardship, to the point of risking your life and taking other people's lives in your hands, in the belly of your bomber. Honor, through every large and small token of respect: keep your hair short, press your shirt, shine your shoes, salute your superior. And above all, obey without question even the rules that break your heart...
...same token, there is never any pressure to feel as if one has to be a part of the activities offered. After all, most students decide to come HLS for the somewhat more grandiose purpose of entering the legal profession (or some derivative thereof), and there is, admittedly, at least some work that must be completed in order to achieve that goal...
...marking of bodies, while an interesting idea, should have been fleshed out to be more than a token experimental gesture. A beefier attempt would have had heavy gothic make-up on the actors or would have physically marked Baal as separate from the rest. For besides Baal and his lover Ekart (Ryan McCarthy '98) all others are either just bodies or symbols with little or no individuality...