Traditional neighborhood schools were seen as enforcing neighborhood patterns of racial segregation, but many of them had also become abject failures academically.
"Because our culture so highly values... an illusion of self-control and control of circumstance, we become abject when contemplating mentation that seems more changeable, less restrained and less controllable, more open to outside influence, than we imagine our own to be".
It was a place where previous winners became abject losers, from Atari to Sega, Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft.
As for the rape scene, its horror is focused not on the act of penetration but on the preceding struggle, during which Blanche is stripped, manhandled and degraded by Stanley to become an abject thing.
"Are you saying the young woman for whom I've become an abject doormat will finally return my affections, and I should spend a mint on her present?" Mr. Bailey says, nearly weeping with happiness.
So the lessons to be learned from Thucydides are no different from the ones that the tragic playwrights teach: that the arrogant self can become the abject Other; that failure to bend, to negotiate, inevitably results in terrible fracture; that, because we are only human, our knowledge is merely knowingness, our vision partial rather than whole, and we must tread carefully in the world.
Also, the venture world tells us this story that one-third of venture-backed companies will become an abject loss and one-third will go sideways and one-third will be hits.
During his final scene with Nina, he becomes so abject that he literally kisses the ground she walks on.
It was very difficult not to feel acutely sorry for BBC reporters as the apologies became more abject, the recriminations grew louder, and government gloating became smugger.
Over the next months, as my stalking of the blond swimmer became more abject, as more and more meals ended with me bursting into tears and locking myself in my room as my parents clumped helplessly down the hallway after me, the sentence "Something tells me you are going to have a future as a writer" served as a charm.
The WTO has always been about balanced liberalisation, where the balance of obligation falls on richer countries". The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, he says, has ensured that more people have become free from abject poverty in the past 10 years than at any other time in the past century.
