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Even though formidable winters are the norm in the Dakotas, many people were unprepared for the ______ of the blizzard of 1888.

I had never seen so many people with so many disabilities. I returned home, silently ______， thinking how fortunate we really were.

In order to increase the number of female representatives, the selection committee decided to ______ in favor of women for three years.

Tom or you _____ the job.

FIFA

The bank is reported in the local newspaper ______ in broad daylight yesterday.

With some men dressing down and some other men flaunting their looks, it is really hard to tell they are gay or ______

It is bad manner to ______ other people behind their backs.

generation gap

The premise with which the multiculturalists begin is unexceptional: that it is important to recognize and to celebrate the wide range of cultures that exist in the United States. In what sounds like a reflection of traditional American pluralism, the multiculturalists argue that we must recognize difference, that difference is legitimate; in its kindlier Versions, multiculturalism represents the discovery on the part of minority groups that they can play a part in molding the larger culture even as they are molded by it. And on the campus multiculturalism, defined more locally as the need to recognize cultural variations among students, has tried with some success to talk about how a racially and ethnically diverse student body can enrich everyone's education. Phillip Green, a political scientist at Smith and a thoughtful proponent of multiculturalism, notes that for a significant portion of the students the politics of identity is all-consuming. Students, he says, 'are unhappy with the thin gruel of rationalism. They require a therapeutic curriculum to overcome not straightforward racism but ignorant stereotyping. ' But multiculturalism's hard-liners, who seem to make up the majority of the movement, damn as racism any attempt to draw the myriad of American groups into a common American culture. For these multiculturalists, differences are absolute, irreducible, and intractable-occasions not for understanding but for separation. The muhicuhuralists, it turns out, is not especially interested in the great American hyphen, in the syncretistic (and therefore naturally tolerant) identities that allow Americans to belong to more than a single culture, to be both particularizes and universalisms. The time-honored American mixture of assimilation and traditional allegiance is denounced as a danger to racial and gender authenticity. This is an extraordinary reversal of the traditional liberal commitment to a 'truth' that transcends parochialisms. In the new race/class/gender formation, Universality is replaced by, among other things, feminist science Nubian numerals (as part of an A, fro-centric science), and what Marilyn Frankenstein of the University of Massachusetts-Boston de-scribes as 'ethno-mathematics,' in which the cultural basis of counting comes to the fore. The multiculturalists insist on seeing all perspectives as tainted by the perceiver's particular point of view. Impartial knowledge, they argue, is not possible, because ideas are simply the expression of individual identity, or of the unspoken but inescapable assumptions that are inscribed in a culture or a language. The problem, however, with this warmed-over Nietzscheanism is that it threatens to leave no ground for anybody to stand on, so the multiculturalists make a leap, necessary for their own intellectual survival, and proceed to argue that there are some categories, such as race and gender, that do in fact embody an unmistakable knowledge of oppression. Victims are at least epistemologically lucky. Objectivity is a mask for oppression. And so an appalled former 1960s radical complained to me that self-proclaimed witches were teaching classes on witchcraft. 'They're not teaching students how to think,' she said, 'they're telling them what to believe.'

She ______ fifty or so when I first met her at the conference.

A brilliant writer can ______ a whole scene effortlessly.

the A(H1N1)virus

If you wait for the ______ moment to act, you may have never begun your project.

They were given nothing ______ dry bread and water for their evening meal.

This spacious room is ______ furnished with just a few articles in it.

CBS

During the opera's most famous aria the tempo chosen by the orchestra's conductor seemed ______, without necessary relation to what had gone before.

Allowing our cities to be ______ by cars has progressively affected children's independent mobility, for children have lost much of their freedom to explore their own neighborhood or city.