Word: shadows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Congressmen are not devoid of humility, and some legislators recognize that if it were not for a few lucky breaks, they would be back home peddling insurance. One Democrat ridicules a colleague from an adjoining district as "scared of his shadow." The explanation: "He knows that he's at the pinnacle of his life, and if he ever lost this job, he could never live like this again...
Brownmiller attempts a novelist's overview, tracing the domestic tyrannies that slowly escalate to mutilation and death. But her squabbling adults have little more personality than Punch and Judy, and their maltreated daughter is a mere shadow. Waverly Place takes 294 pages to express what W.H. Auden did in a quatrain: "I and the public know/ What all schoolchildren learn,/ Those to whom evil is done/ Do evil in return...
...spent days at a time in a cocaine stupor. His live-in companion Hedda Nussbaum, 46, was a former children's book editor with a boxer's dented profile, the result of years of beatings by Steinberg. And while only Steinberg stood trial for Lisa's death, a shadow of complicity fell upon everyone who did not act to prevent it: Nussbaum, the girl's neighbors and teachers, and the child-welfare system...
Joel Steinberg is convicted of manslaughter, but to some a shadow of complicity touches his companion Hedda Nussbaum -- and the child-welfare system itself...
...plan does pass, it may do so at the expense of racial harmony. If controlled choice wins a majority vote of the School Committee over the objections of its four Black members, many say this would represent a major setback for a city trying to emerge from the shadow of racial politics...