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Stoicism? Sure. It's a characteristic of an island where weather is a verb, where in a tiny, crowded place, patience is necessary. Americans, used to an entire continent of limitless potential, tend to have less need for stoicism. If they hate where they live, they often move somewhere else. If Brits move more than a few hundred miles, they're in the sea. But it seems to me we need both approaches in a war on terrorism. We need to fight back militarily when appropriate. We need boldness and aggression. But we also need to steel ourselves for casualties...
HOTTEST KITCHEN APPLIANCE The microwave oven was a profit boon to retailers, and firmly established "microwave" as a verb. No one ever ovened a cake or stoved an egg, but Americans are microwaving with impunity...
This prosaic reality, though, doesn’t translate very well into fiction—especially fast-moving fiction. Hence Professors Langdon and Massey—and hence, eventually, my roommates’ and my Latin verb-declining, kung fu-fighting heroes. There is something strange about propagating a myth that you no longer believe in, especially when it’s more or less about you. But if there’s one thing that Miracle on 34th Street—and, come to think of it, the lukewarm reviews for Ross Douthat’s debut tome?...
...lacks” (verb...
...TIVO (verb) Only 2.3 million subscribe to this digital recording service--but everyone, it seems, is "TiVoing" favorite shows. And probably still Xeroxing...