Word: oneself
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...might have a different view of "closeness" with men! Furthermore, the message "Give me so much love that I forget myself" is hardly a message which empowers women. Since violence against women is precisely an act of "forgetting," or negating, the existence of another to advocate the "forgetting" of oneself through love, at least in this context, is to point up a central feature of patriarchal culture: the required self effacement, we would like to stress, is systematically linked to the effacement of women in rape: both are results of a culture which condones the subjugation of women...
Flaherty, who said he did not have "the slightest idea" why this engagement was on his calendar, had a case of the pre-show jitters. "Does one ever look forward to making a fool of oneself?" he asked...
...conference that since the 16th century, Catholic thinkers have allowed withholding of life support in some cases. O'Rourke and others cite a 1957 speech in which Pope Pius XII said , that life-sustaining methods are morally required only when they "do not involve any grave burdens for oneself or another...
TODAY, HOWEVER, we are encouraged to look for greatness only within ourselves. Self-perfection used to be the work of a lifetime. Today, it is what happens after a weekend at the fat farm. Character used to mean demanding more of oneself than one could expect of others. Today, it is riding one's biorhythms to a new high of self-awareness. Being a hero used to involve the self-discipline needed to overcome daunting odds. In our post-mood ring society, being a hero is being yourself...
...incurable disease called AIDS -- acquired immunodeficiency syndrome -- has cast a shadow over the American sexual landscape. Since AIDS is chiefly transmitted through sex, it is forcing partners to a painful re-examination of their bedroom practices. The heedless abandon of Lawrencian lovers begins to seem dangerous and irresponsible, for oneself and for others. Instead of a transfixed gaze, lovers may feel they have to give each other a detailed grilling on present health and past liaisons...