Word: undo
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...machine you can quickly undo...
...when gender specificity is taken to an extreme, it can undo the very goals it seeks to achieve. Stripping words down to their bare essentials can lead to a vague, nondescriptive--and practically useless--form of language. Imagine the birth of the human race told in gender neutral terms: God caused the person to fall into a deep sleep and took one of its ribs and closed flesh around it. God built the rib taken from the person into a person...This will be called a person, for from a person was it taken. Clearly, neutering language has its limits...
Unfortunately, that's what Khrushchev thought. Three years later he was involuntarily retired, scratching his head and watching his successor undo his "bold" idea. Thirty years later, as hordes of Kennedy School professors stake their careers on cleaning up the economic fallout of such "hairbrained schemes" (as those who deposed Khrushchev referred to this plan, among others), their president is preparing to embark on the same course of bureaucratic juggling...
...alludes to those troubled times in his patented short sentences: "I'm not unique. People have bad patches and good patches. I don't dwell in the past. Don't look back on it. It's over, done. Buried. The past is dead as a doornail. You can't undo it. It's all there...
...West Bank, starting in the oasis of Jericho. Yet the psychological breakthrough in recognizing each other's humanity is huge, the step neither Israelis nor Palestinians would take before. Making it work will take years to realize, but only a failure of the test they have set themselves can undo what has been done. The nagging question is whether these two can live with a victory for peace rather than for Israel or Palestine...