Word: brotherism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Broadway's Imperial Theater, is not totally autobiographical. When we meet the hero, a writer named George Schneider (Judd Hirsch), he is a heartbroken shell of a man who sleepwalks around his living room poring over letters of condolence. The leftovers in his refrigerator are reinventing penicillin. His brother Leo (Cliff Gorman), a kind of compassionate Sammy Glick, feels that the cure for George's depression is to fix him up with a date-in Leo's mind a euphemism for an easy...
...brother some of the family's good looks, most of which went...
Assad said as much at a Damascus press conference before flying off to Tripoli. Between Egypt and Syria, he said, there might be "disagreements on methods and perhaps on certain actions or incidents-but divorce between two brother countries, never." There was another small sign last week that Assad has not given up on Geneva. Without Syrian objection, the U.N. Security Council approved a six-month extension of the truce-observer force on the Golan Heights...
...rush to determinate judgment is being led by an unlikely alliance: inmate groups, various academics and law-and-order conservatives. Since California embraced the indeterminate sentence in 1917, prisoners have increasingly chafed under what they see as the arbitrariness of parole authorities. Soledad Brother George Jackson, for example, was held in prison eleven years for a $70 gas station robbery because, his partisans said, he refused to soft pedal political militancy...
...With a big brother, he gets to see a side of the world he has never seen," Cochran said. "And he has someone to talk to, to care about him. Sometimes he calls me up. He doesn't have anything to say really. But it just makes him happy to know somebody is out there...