Word: voiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those days "we were not followers but members," the time was ripe for gurus. Japan's galloping economic miracle in the 1970s and '80s also spawned a boom in "new religions" offering spiritual refuge to Japanese alienated by materialism. Asahara's messianic self-image expanded to help fill this void. After a visit to a Himalayan retreat, he boasted of having achieved satori, the Japanese term for nirvana or enlightenment. At this point he also claimed his first success at self-levitation...
Identifying a "void" in campus publications thus far, Diversity and Distinction Co-founder Michael M. Luo '98 told magazine recruits last night that the new publication will address the minority community "as a whole...
Gordon's appointment would fill a void in the history department, which currently has one Japanese history professor, Harvard-Yenching Professor of History Albert M. Craig, who said he mainly teaches courses for graduate students...
...didn't find Murray's argument connection IQ and socio-economic status very convincing, not to mention between IQ and race, but that does not mean that his thoughts, studies and insights are totally void of logic or morality...
...cigarette/ phallus remains central, perhaps suggesting Merle's own doubts about his manhood. As Merle stands, patriachal, yet despairing amidst the rolling fields of tobacco, the camera shifts once again to an image of sexual negation. The Barn is a Keatsian cave of forlorn despair and homosexual repression, suggesting void on both a sexual and an ontological level. The only hint of resolution comes in the form of conversion. All seems resolved as the tobacco is mysteriously rendered into phallic triumph in the form of the omnipresent cigarette...