Word: verbally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other hand is tapping its fingers impatiently, because the critics are right about one thing: when advocates of multiculturalism adopt the haughty stance of political correctness, they quickly descend to silliness or worse. It's obnoxious, for example, to rely on university administrations to enforce P.C. standards of verbal inoffensiveness. Racist, sexist and homophobic thoughts cannot, alas, be abolished by fiat but only by the time-honored methods of persuasion, education and exposure to the other guy's -- or, excuse me, woman's -- point of view...
...heart for the radical Shi'ites, whose aim had always been to create an Islamic regime. "We would like the people to elect us to implement it," explained Abu Bilal al Adib of the al-Dawa party, a sometime sponsor of terrorism. Another Shi'ite representative declared the verbal obeisance to democracy irrelevant. "It is the motivated minority that counts," said he, "and the Islamic movement is the most motivated." Even democracy's true believers doubted its feasibility in Iraq. "Participation in political parties requires a political maturity that is lacking in Iraq," said the Democratic Movement's al-Durrah...
...cowered before the wrath of Master Arnolphe, Burrell had them perform more acrobatic stumbling than the Lowell JCR stage should have to endure. The most abominable aspect of their performances was the pseudodialect of the male servant, Alain (Bliss Dake). One could never be sure whether he derived his verbal twang from the deep South, southern California or the center of London. The accent quickly became so distracting that the servant follies never attained their potential hilarity...
...ignorance about acquaintance rape is dangerous. But Morgan's informed and warped view is even more scary. Morgan says that it is a woman's responsibility to make herself "understood" in situations like this; he suggests that if an acquaintance rape occurs the woman merely has not played the "verbal and nonverbal games" of "courtship" well enough. This kind of attitude is chilling. Morgan must realize that at a certain point, "courtship" ceases to be a game...
WHEN WE DEAD AWAKEN. In Europe, Robert Wilson is the most famous American stage director. In the U.S., the anti-verbal, visually lyrical elder statesman of the avant-garde is little known. He designed, mounted and adapted for Harvard's American Repertory Theater this spellbinding Ibsen dreamscape about an artist looking back and summing...