Word: confrontive
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Back in Washington, the increased Democratic strength in Congress promises even more polarized policymaking. In the House, Speaker Foley is likely to press populist bills on health care, civil rights and an income tax surcharge on millionaires. Foley's strategy is to confront Bush with an unpalatable choice: if the President signs the legislation, Democrats will get the credit, but if he vetoes the bills, Democrats will gain an issue for 1992. Senate majority leader George Mitchell, who like Foley had leaned toward conciliation with the White House in the past two years, will take the offensive now that Bush...
...century in America without encountering -- and railing against -- prejudice. Partly because the law of averages suggests that in a group this numerous there ought to be at least one mean, crazy, totally unassimilable figure. Somebody, in other words, who would cut through the sweet patience with which the Krichinskys confront both their ups and downs, and occasionally convert their dear, generally comic bickerings into something dramatically forceful. We're talking chicken soup here -- momentarily warming and comforting but, in any large moral or historical sense, therapeutically useless...
...juncture at adolescence. Drawing on interviews with youngsters in Boston and students at public and private schools -- including the Emma Willard School in Troy, N.Y., and the Laurel School in Shaker Heights, Ohio -- Gilligan and her collaborators conclude that girls reach a psychological impasse around age 11 when they confront the conventions of a male-dominated culture. They discover that their intense awareness of intimacy is not highly prized, even though society perceives women as caring and altruistic. The dilemma, says Gilligan, is that "for girls to remain responsive to themselves, they must resist the conventions of feminine goodness...
Does the search for a lineal sense of masculinity have any relevance to such thorny modern dilemmas as how to balance work and family or how to talk to women? Perhaps. Men have to feel comfortable with themselves before they can successfully confront such issues. This grounding is also critical for riding out the changes in pop culture and ideals. John Wayne and Alan Alda, like violence and passivity, reflect holes in a core that needs fixing. But men can get grounded in many ways, and male retreats provide just one stylized option, though not one necessarily destined to attract...
...night. I want something better for my daughter. I want fathers to raise boys to respect women as equals and keep their fists to themselves. Some cherished male folkways may have to go -- the cult of hyperviolent heroes like Rambo, for example. Too bad. I want men to confront their own aggression, the pleasure they take in its depiction and the excuses they make for its enactment -- that no really means yes, that wives need to know who's boss, that "bad" girls are fair game. I want them to tell their tiny sons what I tell my daughter: Georgie...