Word: ethical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that struggle began at the age of ten when a disagreement with a boyhood chum over the description of a sunset ended in a fistfight. "It was my first literary skirmish," he says. Born and raised in Michigan, McGuane was introduced to the outdoors and a stern Irish work ethic by his father, an auto-parts manufacturer. McGuane early on developed an "adventurous image" of what a writer should be from Horatio Hornblower novels and books about World War II. "I saw myself on the deck of an Amazon steamer or something," he recalls. At Michigan State, McGuane edited...
...This may be the strongest freshman class since I've been here," Coach Kathy Delaney Smith said. "Their work ethic and their commitment to the sport is tremendous...
...definitely the dark horse," Mazanec said. "But the work ethic and attitude is good. I think we're going to surprise a lot of people...
...relationship with the painter's civil candor about what he does. You are invited to think about how paintings come to mean what they say. Brought to the fore, embodied on the surface ever more boldly, this is the great conceptual theme of Velazquez's work, its binding ethic. It precludes all sentimentality and rhetoric. It is -- as one of his contemporaries exclaimed, on seeing Las Meninas -- "the theology of painting...
...much a citizen of this world as I am of my country. To hell with those people who are critical of what I am able to do to help save peoples' lives. I don't mean to sound hokey, but I grew up on a Christian ethic which says we are supposed to help the least of our brothers...