Word: neighbored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your next door neighbor were to tell you that he was going to blow up your house, you would certainly do something about it before he actually carried out his plan. Yet because of the misconception that freedom of speech should be accepted as a categorical imperative, an analogous situation is tolerated on the political front...
...SPLITTING WOOD IN FRONT OF MY New Hampshire house, trying to get the chores done before the next wave of Republican cavalry swept through, when Frank, my neighbor, called to say that the turkeys were back. "Great," I answered."Tell them to stop wrecking Medicare, and nix on that tax cut for the rich...
Gomes succeeds in criticizing a world which he portrays with great love. His scenes are richly detailed, especially the pre-marriage ceremonies and a neighbor's worries about being evicted from her home. However, the actual story is not as coherent as it should be. The frequent discussion of Nundo, an old revolutionary friend of Vicente, seems puzzling since no one explains who he is. When the audience finally sees him, Nundo abandons Vicente in a huge tizzy over the moral dilemma of his country's political health. His position is never resolved...
...when commenting on an explosive marital spat occurring next door, it is incumbent on a neighbor to be diplomatic and sympathetic. But must one be fatuous too? Here is Canada, a great neighboring country, choking on cultural diversity, very nearly dying of cultural diversity--and the spokesman for the President of the U.S. offers a mindless, mantra-like homily in praise of the very source of Canada's ongoing agony...
...Harvard administered Arboretum, which is also part of the Boston Park System, is not the only organization interested in expanding onto a neighbor's land. The state Lab is also interested in using an Arboretum building for visitor training and living space...