Word: desiderata
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; You have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should." -Max Ehrmann, "Desiderata...
...went for the next three days of cascading inflation. Many of those who showed up to bid on the desiderata of celebrity were themselves celebrities. Film star Arnold Schwarzenegger, spouse of J.F.K.'s niece Maria Shriver, muscled up $772,500 for J.F.K.'s MacGregor Woods golf clubs, $134,500 for a Norman Rockwell painting of the President and $189,500 for a leather desk set. From a different latitude, singer Jimmy Buffett telephoned in a winning bid of $43,700 for a Jamie Wyeth lithograph of the President in a sailboat...
...delegates from 180 nations will meet in Cairo for another go at the population problem. Advocacy groups and bureaucrats alike trumpet this conference as a breakthrough because it will focus on women's issues. In U.N.-speak, however, that translates into a catalog of desiderata ranging from appeals to eliminate sexual stereotypes to calls for men to do more housework -- nice-sounding proposals that are irrelevant to population control in many of the traditional cultures of the Third World...