Word: void
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were to do the senseless thing--to take the path of least resistance, to give it all up for the void--it is easy to see why one might choose to go by leaping from the cliffs at Point Fermin. There is not much in the way of natural beauty in the port town of San Pedro, at the southern end of Los Angeles. Almost everywhere, the views of the Pacific are cluttered by the oil tankers, the container ships, the canneries and the flaming smokestacks that provide the jobs in this working-class town. But at Point Fermin there...
...class, that judgment is really about politics, that religion is really about fantasy, that necessity is really about chance. These views come from an Enlightenment that began with Galileo and Newton and a modernity begun by Darwin, Marx and Freud. We are Nietzsche's children, shivering in the pointless void...
...Energetic Cost of Walking and Running in a Non-Human Biped"; Balint Virag '96 for "Random Walks on Finite Convex Sets of Lattice Points"; Adam K. Webb '96 for "Community, Peasants, and the Shining Path Guerrillas: A Field Study in Ayacucho, Peru"; Geordie Young '96 for "The Distribution of Void Sizes During Structure Formation in the Universe"; and Timothy P. Yu '96 for "Angles of Submission: The Poetics and Politics of 'Language' Poetry...
...record; it had good credit; it had tax losses to shelter any future profits. Susan felt sorry for him, realizing how much he needed this. Then she mentioned that she hadn't actually signed the power of attorney herself; a friend had. Jim's spirits soared. "Call Hillary and void it," he said...
...column counseling teenage girls about society's sex pressures and there isn't any discussion by a happily married couple describing the joy and responsibility that come with sexual activity. There is no recommended path to follow, no acceptable way to live. The magazine's writers have created a void...