Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...search for an omnipotent but benevolent God is also fleetingly touched upon during the play, when Sarnat declares: "If there is a higher power, my sister would not be an idiot and I would not be starving to death...
...idiot sister," played by Andrea Thomes, is a mother in search of her dead babies. Aron flirts briefly with the notion of women victimized by their bodies and by men who want to control them...
...Vaktins spent their lifetime savings to build the two-story country house four years ago. Alexander's sister supplied construction materials cheaply, since she worked in the trade. His mother helped pay for the bricks. The dacha cost about 10,000 rubles, a sum that could have bought two cars at the time. But the property is debt free, and the Vaktins relax there every Sunday...
...symbolic power. "The fact that God continues to be thought of as a male God means people begin to equate power with maleness," says the Rev. Joan Campbell, the first clergywoman to be chief executive of the National Council of Churches. When noninclusive words crop up during Mass, asserts Sister Francis Bernard O'Connor of the University of Notre Dame, women "sit there and say, Why am I here?" She argues that "God does not have gender, and there are a number of ways God can be addressed without calling...
...last year was sentenced to four to 12 years for killing his stepfather. Neighbors in Vestal, New York, sometimes called the police when the screams grew too loud from the beatings -- with a paddle, a belt and a two-by-four -- that Roy's stepfather gave him, his younger sister and brother, and his mother. Teachers reported their suspicions of abuse; relatives tried to intervene. But each time, police officers and social workers left the children in the home. On his 17th birthday, Roy shot and killed his stepfather on their front porch as he came home from work...