Word: dwellings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...partisanship unfortunately blinds Lupo to some of White's flaws and leads to some questionable assertions--that White's national aspirations were killed by his stance during the busing crisis rather than by the allegations of corruption made during the White-Timilty mayoral race. And Lupo prefers not to dwell on the way Garrity has taken control of the Boston school system, removing it from the jurisdiction of the Board of Education and White's office...
There is no great need to dwell on past bigotries, nor do most of us believe that heterosexuals bear some kind of collective guilt. What we do ask of you is an intelligent understanding of human variation, and advise in a friendly way that you accept and ennoble sexual love in yourselves and others as an intrinsic human quality in and of itself. We find that straight folks who love and accept their sexual selves are rarely a threat. Sexual fear and superstition has often been related to oppression of other kinds: consider the weird mythologies among some white people...
Sweat and Gibber. Raven, 49, is also a writer of mysteries and high-class potboilers (Friends in Low Places) that dwell on sex and intrigue among the upper classes. But he has been a dedicated Trollopian since his undergraduate days at Cambridge. Nevertheless, he spent six months "sweating and gibbering" before he found the right blueprint for the series, which he suggested. He would throw out Trollope's character A as boring and superfluous -only to watch her turn up 700 pages later as someone essential to the denouement. Character B would be discarded, then put quickly back when...
...recommends, for instance, that "whenever there is a woman in a biblical passage, retell the story from her point of view." Example: in the story of Moses, do not dwell simply on his feat of leading the Israelites out of Egypt; consider also the courage shown by Moses' mother and sister in saving his life when he was newborn...
...Florida, earning a B.A. and an M.A. in the history of ideas. In the mid-'60s she moved to New York, enrolled in a Ph.D. program at Columbia University, then dropped out and worked as a model in New York, Paris and Milan. She does not care to dwell on her modeling career "because when you say 'model,' people think you're frivolous...