Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Males have always wanted a place of their ownwhere they wouldn't have to compete with women andthis argument has prevailed for women as well,"Sears says...
...This argument is established early in Birthday Letters, when Hughes records meeting Plath, a Fulbright scholar, at Cambridge University in 1956: "I was being auditioned/ For the male lead in your drama." A tempestuous courtship soon gives way to an equally stormy marriage: two ambitious poets--one English and reserved, the other American and outwardly exuberant but secretly troubled--yoked together in an initial ecstasy that eventually subsides into mutual misery. Hughes, in his telling, learns that Plath has brought problems along with her "long, perfect, American legs." He becomes acquainted with her "homicidal/ Hooded stare," her "dybbuk fury...
...once, I totally agree with Krauthammer. I'm not sure a capital crime can be charged for creating headless humans, but withholding any kind of funding should help. The argument that cloning humans for their organs might save lives is spurious, since any respect for life seems completely absent from this misbegotten enterprise. Simply because we have the technology to do something does not automatically lead to the conclusion that it should be done. FRANCES STANDAERT Eindhoven, the Netherlands...
...focus of Daley's argument was largely domestic in nature...
...stems from the elastic nature of sexual harassment itself, which is defined so expansively (it includes "unwanted advances" that create an "offensive working environment") that no one is quite sure what it means. After the court ordered the Jones case to proceed, President Clinton's lawyers made a plausible argument that her suit should be dismissed without a trial. Even assuming, for the sake of argument, that her allegations were true, the President's lawyers said they didn't add up to illegal harassment...