Perhaps valorizing teachers as heroes is simply another way of continually refusing to honor and respect the profession in the ways that actually matter.
Marx believed that man could be made perfect; Communists found that people had an irritating way of refusing to be perfected.
"To blame population growth instead of extreme and selective consumerism on the part of some is one way of refusing to face the issues," he writes.
In David Cromer's robust new revival (at the Walter Kerr), Artie (Ben Stiller), in this scene, is provocatively planted with his back to the audience — a way of refusing the character's charm and emphasizing his lack of control.
In situations like these, according to the psychologist Rod Martin, Humor is a way of refusing to be overcome by the people and situations, both large and small, that threaten our well being.
This is a complex environmental issue Perhaps unsurprisingly given the church's stance on birth control, and in common with many environmentalists, he thinks consumption rather than overpopulation is the bigger environmental problem: To blame population growth instead of extreme and selective consumerism on the part of some, is one way of refusing to face the issues.
"When the only thing that matters in the final analysis is how big you're getting and how fast, which is what's shown to produce these multibillion-dollar returns, what you get is a culture of looking the other way, of refusing to deal with what ought to be an affront to people," Mitch Kapor told me a few days after Kalanick resigned.
The second use of the term correctly points to the arrogance and danger of ignoring excessive consumption: "To blame population growth instead of extreme and selective consumerism on the part of some, is one way of refusing to face the issues".
They argued that our professional focus on teaching young women how to refuse sex not only makes women and girls accountable for their rape, but is counterproductive insofar as it implies that other ways of refusing sex (with silences or even weak acceptances) are open to reasonable doubt.
His delight at leaving me in the lurch is exceeded only by the satisfaction he seems to feel at being my rescuer: it's another way, I guess, of refusing to be the kind of individual he's expected to be.
