Word: patly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...aberrant behavior in the past. One Air Force captain recalls overlooking a minor incident years back. The man got promoted and continued to bother other women. Now she thinks maybe she should have made a little noise. An Air Force staff sergeant recalls a military doctor who used to pat the buttocks and breasts of many female patients, regardless of their ailment. As for the men, they stand divided. One Navy ensign has little sympathy. "A lot of women," he says, "bring it on themselves." Air Force Sergeant Bradley Ahrensfield, on the other hand, says there is "no excuse...
...frictions are most acute in Oklahoma, Colorado and Illinois, where hotshot pros have shoved aside older volunteers who have labored for months to get their man on the ballot. In some instances the acrimony has led to legal battles. In Tulsa organizer Pat Clancy says a Dallas-based team took over his group's bank account when they consolidated operations in Oklahoma City. When Clancy balked at being shut out, the World War II veteran was told he was a "security risk." According to Cliff Arnebeck, a Perot volunteer in Ohio, the Dallas-based advisers "squelch and humiliate" grass-roots...
...talent and to trip onpower. In any case, I left Cincinnati consideringmyself a writer. I had a few stories and essaysunder my belt and a pile of Wyoming Horizonnewspapers. all fall, though, I wrote a total offive paper--only two of them were more than fivepages. I came to Pat's class with a lot ofbaggage--illusions warring with great trepidation...
Like any good writing teacher, pat didn't letme get off the hook by running away. Good writers,he insisted, engage their anxieties anddepression. Not by pouting, but by taking the painand trying to extrapolate a universal truth. hepushed me hard to write a third essay, and afourth, that finally satisfied me. All that year,I felt I was performing for my professors,roommates and friends while my troubles gnawed atmy insides. I learned that spring to fuse the twointo a cohesive, though complex and certainly notideal, whole. I wrote about suicide, hope and my"beautiful friend" Kathy. I think...
...photograph of my dog--areremnants of that first year, and so are many of myfriends. I hope to get up to Maine to see Jennythis summer, and maybe down to New York where Amylives. Ash and I are both in Cambridge, as is PatHoy. I discuss my writing with Pat all the timeand he has convinced me that I could give writinga go as a career...