Word: virtuous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Immigration. We are not us anymore. Americans of earlier arrival looked back nostalgically, bitterly, to a virtuous Edenic America, now lost and overrun. Whitman, the bard of democracy, harbored some of the Know-Nothings' nativist bigotries. He referred to a "coarse, unshaven, filthy Irish rabble...
Lemmon is at the center of the film, and he brings down the entire enterprise. Dreadfully earnest and concerned, he is the virtuous, apolitical innocent with whom the audience is supposed to identify. Lemmon's performance is twitchy and insufferable. It is almost impossible to believe that this man is the same Jack Lemmon who tangoed with a rose between his teeth while dressed in a flapper's dress. What's really "Missing" here is the real Jack Lemmon...
Surely, the handful of shorts wearers must get cold, and some of them go as far as to admit that they do. Ed Park '96 considers wearing shorts a "virtuous activity, [but] one that risks certain things...like losing your legs." Others claim they simply do not get as cold as normal people. Several, times, shorts-clad Don Hayler '97 has offered his jacket to a friend. "They are just more cold than I am," he states. Mark Yokoyama '96, who wore shorts all the time until he bought a "really cool pair of pants," argues that his high body...
...supposedly virtuous high road of race preference has taken the nation into dubious terrain. America's chattering classes have been beguiled by the idea of compensatory unfairness. They have not recognized it for what it is: a flirtation with the devil, a deepening reliance on the principle that formed the foundation of slavery, the Ku Klux Klan and Jim Crow. This was the poison at the center of apartheid and Hitler's Nuremberg Laws...
...royals do satisfy our need for instant gratification--so why not acknowledge it and give them their own television series? "Melrose Place" and "90210" will finally have some stiff competition. After all, as the Economist points out, even Bagehot conceded that to expect the sovereign always to be "virtuous [is] not rational...