Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard International Review, Fall 1993, Vol. XVI, No. 1: Page 9 features a picture of a UN soldier soothing a Bosnian youth. Is he a servant of world peace or...NAMBLA...
...exclude either personal or professional role from my life experience," writes Boyle, "would be to reject my definition of feminism." For Boyle, being a "conservative feminist" means a career as "wife, mother, doctor, and soldier...
Boyle thinks she's saying something new-- or interesting, for that matter. Reacting against academic feminism, or what she thinks is academic feminism, Boyle concludes that being a "conservative feminist" means not only living the life of tinker, tailor, soldier, spy, but also wanting children and baking for them "the best cinnamon oatmeal chocolate chip cookies." (Did you get that recipe from Hillary, Karen?) To her, being a mother isn't enough, and a woman who wants to stay at home with her children simply isn't fighting the good fight. In short, it's difficult to place a distinction...
...familiar score and choreography tell the story of young Marie, celebrating Christmas with her parents, her brother Fritz and a houseful of guests, when her mysterious godfather arrives with magical gifts and a charming nephew. Marie is enchanted by his present of a nutcracker shaped as a toy soldier, and by his nephew. That night she dreams of a battle of mutinous mice, won by the nephew in the guise of a life-size nutcracker. Marie and the Nutcracker are then carried off to the land of the Sugar Plum Fairy, where they are entertained by dancers of every country...
...morally complicated. He has been drawn all his life to military culture and the subject of war. Complications from a teenage case of tuberculosis left him lame, unfit for military duty. But he went on to teach military history at Sandhurst, the Royal Military Academy, for many years -- a soldier's life by association, at an intellectual remove...