Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reverend Jesse Jackson was cheered wildly by Democratic party activists when he called for continuing the fight for ERA, but most Americans don't seem to share that enthusiasm. Voters in Maine and liberal Vermont, the latest to consider referendums on the proposal, handed feminists two more defeats. Schlafly says Americans don't want to endorse what she calls the "hidden agenda" of ERA activists. If passed, the law will be used to mandate "taxpayer-funded abortions and gay rights," she said...
...Boys and Their Baby might seem worthwhile if we were convinced that Adam learned something from his San Francisco experience. He begins to write letters to his mother and Suzanne--all he needs is a little detachment for him to deal with his problems--and it is here that we see what his inner feelings are about his encounters with the eccentricities of the city. He thinks a lot about paternity, sexuality and his career and somehow he does seem to become closer to his former enemies. But we are really left wondering if he makes any major life decisions...
Joyce once said, "Imagination is memory," and he drew greatly on his personal experiences for his works--so greatly that his first novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, is considered nearly biographical. For many of his female characters, who seem even more real and human than the male characters which Joyce based on himself and his experiences, he drew on Nora. Molly, Gretta Conroy in The Dead, Anna Livia Plurabelle in Finnegans Wake all bear striking resemblences to Nora...
...lack of money did not seem to keep Nora and James from trying to produce a family. Nora conceived a son, Giorgio, and a daughter, Lucia, before she had a miscarriage which kept her from having other children. But that did not keep the couple from having an active sex life. Joyce's wildest sexual fantasies, which readers of Ulysses will recall from the text, were earnestly fulfilled by Nora, and their erotic letters, written during the few times in their lives that they were apart, are filled with the couple's rather eccentric sexual fantasies...
Fortas had betrayed his own ideals, and in the process made the myth of Camelot and the Great Society seem a cruel hoax. One could fight for truth and justice and make a pretty good buck while doing it, was the lesson he taught. One could also cozy up to power, find for himself a comfortable niche in the White House power structure and never fear that he would be accountable...