Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since the audience is clearly meant to take her seriously, it seems counterproductive to portray the messenger figure as a New Age hippie, a stereotype even liberal tree-huggers tend to mock. Is this an ironic undercutting of the fable's hitherto sincere message, or an unintentional lack of artistic imagination? The character is thought-provoking but ultimately unclear in intent and frustrating...
...LATE in the game for us to be dismissing voices that have hitherto not been represented or heard because they are different or challenging. What we should be doing at this point is accepting the fact that the personal is political and that objectivity is an ideal not reflected in reality. Then we must go on to embrace the expression of varying personal viewpoints, which would then enable us to create law and policy that is more just for all people...
...either case, his personal imprint on the age will remain. Gorbachev is above all a source of inspiration for the defenders of liberty, of change without bloodshed, of trial and error, and thus of people who try to unlock the hitherto closed doors into an open future...
...Quayle, it might be said, put his ironies in the fire when he took on the entire legal profession in his A.B.A. speech. What is curious about this newly minted legal critic is not that the Vice President is a lawyer by training but that hitherto he has always been such an indifferent...
...hours after McCarthy's release, French relief worker Jerome Leyraud was seized by two kidnappers in Beirut. It was the first abduction of a Westerner in Beirut since May 1989, and it too had a cold logic. An anonymous phone call from a man claiming to speak for the hitherto unknown Organization for the Defense of Peoples' Rights warned that if another hostage was released, Leyraud would be executed. A day earlier the same group had claimed responsibility for a grenade attack on a U.N. agency building in Beirut...