Word: obeying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mecca and the hedonism of Marbella. "When I am among you," he says, as if addressing all of the West, "I do as you do so well that practically I am one of you. But when I am in Saudi Arabia, I am a real Saudi Arabian. I obey and preserve the customs and traditions that give Saudi Arabia its identity and moral strength...
...There's an ordinance about lights, and I want to obey it," said Rudy Sibilio. "I don't know anything about complaints from a student...
...fact that Silber is willing to kick students off campus and make them face the rack of the Boston housing market reveals the disequilibrium of power which he is willing to exploit. He knows that individual students have no recourse against his harsh discipline except to shut up and obey. Only this time, Silber went too far; he was taken to court and his scorn for the law was, most delightfully, revealed...
...MIGHT BE a cliche of psychology to say that each individual fights an internal battle between having to obey the norms of society and wanting to go on a murderous rampage, eliminating all the petty annoyances of life. There are stories aplenty of people--the Babbits and the Rambos--in whom one side of that internal battle...
...setting offers a leisurely look at the geography that has emerged patchwork from Taylor's stories: the Upper South, which can be described as a swath of territory and customs running west from Richmond to St. Louis, with the emphasis on Tennessee. But Taylor has done more than obey all the rules he has imposed on himself, now and in the past. He satisfies surface expectations on his way to deeper questions...