Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Recent events in the Middle East may force that choice upon American citizens of draft age and such a summer job will then be more than fiction. But even if the nation decides to wage war, the decision to fight must remain as personal as the choice of a summer job. An individual's position concerning a certain war's justness or morality must outweigh his committment to a collective national decision to fight. Because a soldier carries out the killing and destruction of the national decision to go to war, if he is not convinced a war is justified...
...slightly different form--by the same director in 1967, when divorce was a prime subject for light-hearted cinematic fluff, in Yorkin's Divorce: American Style starring Debbie Reynolds, Dick Van Dyke and Jason Robards. Those were the good old days, when a husband and wife would have a fight, get divorced on the spur of the moment, get remarried in a similarly shot-gun manner, then realize that they had just made the biggest mistake of their lives and rectify it by getting back together with their own true love...
...October conference at Harvard's Faculty Club, were also outraged that Safran did not tell them the conference was CIA-backed. Others questioned the ethics of a world-renowned scholar who would blithely circumvent guidelines for the preservation of academic freedom after Harvard had led a national fight in Washington, D.C. last year to preserve just those rights. Still others wondered how Safran could have violated an unwritten rule of ethics and allowed his book, "Saudi Arabia: The Ceaseless Quest for Security," published last fall by Harvard University Press, to go to print without noting the CIA sponsorship...
...sisters were the first people I ever talked to about stuff like that. In my family nobody talks. They just fight. Like last week I came from gymnastics. Right? And my brother was in a bad mood or something, so he pushed me. I got mad and I pushed him. We ended up in the kitchen, and he threw me against the window, which cracked, but I didn't fall out. And my mother started screaming and pushed me to one side, and I started screaming, and my other sisters started screaming. It's always like that. When we lived...
...messes up everything. I know he's going to mess up Christmas again. Year before last, we were driving to our cousins in the Bronx. It was raining, and he gets in a fight with another driver. Last Christmas the same. We were in the car, and he's driving drunk, putting us in danger. And he starts fighting with my big sister, who can't take it. She keeps her unhappiness inside. She ; tried to kill herself one time by swallowing all my grandmother's asthma pills. My other sister tried to kill herself too. They had to clean...