Word: alterity
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...alter the latest interpretation of those time-honored words, which go back to 1791, is the goal of 170 proposed amendments to the U.S. Constitution, now being hotly debated before the House Judiciary Committee. In an unprecedented assault on the Constitution's first ten amendments, which are known as the Bill of Rights, all of the new amendments, whatever their wording, have one aim: to reverse the Supreme Court's recent decisions against school prayers and Bible reading...
Brown wll be a tough first step, however. The Bruins boast top-calibre scoring threats in Tom Draper and Mike Healy, plus a sensational sophomore goalie in Rich Alter...
...soon as it is populated with these freakish characters, the play gets under way, fitfully propelled by Platonov's will-power. "An empty-headed woman-chaser, that's what I am," Platonov admits. By alter-chaser, that's what I am," Platonov admits. By alternating pledges to take up and break off extra-marital escapades, he invites insults, homicide, suicide, and laughter. While the plot thrives on surprise entrances and simultaneous incidents this boobish Casanova slides toward his comic doom...
...shocked survivors of the Nazi terror meet in Lisbon and talk the night away. They are strangers, but they understand each other quickly because they have a common latter-day heritage "that was as much a part of German culture as Goethe and Schiller." They both know how to alter passports, how to dress inconspicuously to put off the police, how to conceal a vial of poison or perhaps a razor blade as a last remedy if they should fall into the hands of the Gestapo. The man named Schwarz describes a common enough European odyssey-the flight from Germany...
...regard flesh as a disease, treat women of average proportions as carriers, whisk them into the street for quarantine. Anyone weighing more than 100 Ibs. is viewed with scorn. Size 14s are advised to stay indoors, or wear dresses. Nowhere else in the world must the customer alter to fit the clothes...