Word: veer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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American storytelling is too important to be left so much to television. In American TV, a spirit only modestly gifted -- and sometimes flat stupid -- sits at the wheel of a trillion-dollar vehicle. The machine, being commercial, has that tendency to veer toward the ditch, seeking the least common denominator. The medium's technological prowess -- and its relentless, pervasive presence in the society -- imposes a responsibility that its writers and producers and directors probably should not have to bear. National Bard . . . and banality. Television does its work. But there are better ways to tell a story...
...Islam in America, to learn this. It would be ignorant, if not naive, not to recognize this important influence. For these reasons, the Harvard Foundation Student Advisory CommitteeandFaculty Advisory Committee deemed the BSA project one worthy of Foundation funding. We had no reason to believe that Muhammad would veer from the topic he was invited to address. In fact, we had every reason to believe that he would constructively contribute to the discourse on rap and its influence. Clearly, this did not happen, but Galper is misguided in faulting the Foundation for this outcome...
Stateside, the authors can sometimes be plausible; once across the ocean, they veer directly into farce. The fashionable will soon be ordering their wardrobes in the Cyrillic alphabet: "Yummies -- young, upwardly mobile Marxists -- are emerging in the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, imitating the clothes and music tastes of yuppies." As for international terrorism, travelers to the Middle East can loosen their seat belts: "Developing countries that succeed in preserving their cultures remain stronger and find it more difficult to justify striking out against the West." This intelligence should be a surprise to the Great Satan...