Word: properness
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From the discreet burgundy shade of his silk tie to his delicate suede shoes to his beautiful white skin, Jonathan Bridgeman is the ideal Englishman. True, his background is a bit murky?they say he was raised in colonial India?but he affords the proper impression, and in a well-manicured world where impressions are all that matter, he fits in seamlessly. But Jonathan Bridgeman isn't English. He isn't Indian. He isn't anything...
...have thoughts, wishes and desires that are not mirror images of their own. As University of Washington child psychologist Andrew Meltzoff sees it, the developmental stage known as the terrible twos occurs because children--normal children, anyway--make the hypothesis that their parents have independent minds and then, like proper scientists, set out to test...
Although the Staff correctly condemned the Pentagon for giving Iraq advanced warning of plans for an invasion, it is tremendously misguided in believing an invasion is the proper course of action. Despite being labeled the next logical extension of the war on terrorism, an attack on Iraq will be nothing but an attempt to fix the Gulf War’s failures. Saddam Hussein is indeed a brutal, dangerous dictator, but a large-scale invasion at this time seems sadly self-serving, unjustifiably reckless and unfortunately counterintuitive given our efforts to win allies in the unstable Middle East...
...frisky, in fact, that Hanson and Rosenberger started calling the dog “Huck” instead of his full name, “Hucksley.” They felt such a spirited animal deserved a less proper title, and thought Huck Finn would be a fitting namesake...
...Staff’s endorsement of a fence to separate Israel proper from the West Bank completely glosses over the root of the conflict and will only be counterproductive towards an eventual settlement. Building a cage around the West Bank will only reinforce the Palestinian people’s sense of alienation and despair...