Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While each person spoke, it became increasingly difficult for me to hold back my tears. Fortunately, I was not alone and one of my former teammates place her reassuring arm around me. After the brief dedication, we filed into the hall to await the journey across the river for the scoreboard ceremony. Softball team members, past and present, gathered near the stairs to console each other. A book was passed around in which each of us wrote down our memories of Becky for her parents...
...cannot in this brief letter go over all the arguments and rationales for my position on this issue. However, I will offer several thoughts to your readers. First, everyone needs to understand that every day lesbian and gay people in the armed services are being discharged, often while being forced to endure humiliation, cruel treatment, and harassment. Women constitute the larger number of these cases, especially women who are moving up in the ranks and threatening the career aspirations of their straight male counterparts. These Americans face ruined careers, shattered lives, and terrible blows to elf-esteem...
...understand that some students do not like children. Mr. Heller's brief but insulting comments about my children's behavior in the dining hall indicate to me that even if he could be convinced that my children were not costing him anything or crowding him, he would still just rather not have them around. I assume that Mr. Heller recognizes that we are doing what we can to teach our children good manners, but that as they are one and three years old they will from time to time still "screech" in public...
Gilchrist Olympio, leader of the opposition party in the recent presidential election in Togo, also spoke at the conference Saturday. Olympio survived a recent assassination attempt by Togolese authorities while campaigning in the northern part of Togo, according to a brief biography of Olympio handed out at the conference...
...jealousy, the durability and disillusionment of life in partnership -- the state he describes, in a characteristic song title, as perpetually Sorry- Grateful. It's been more than five years since he last brought a show to Broadway (his unpleasant Assassins, about John Wilkes Booth et al., had a brief sold-out run off-Broadway), and the next best thing to a new Sondheim score is a thoughtful revisit to old ones. It's a measure of the consistently high quality of his work that after giving rise to three anthologies -- Side by Side by Sondheim, Marry Me a Little...