Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most cases screaming is the worst response, since it sends a message of anger and tension to the child. Calm, assured answers ("We're blessed to be an adoptive family," "My husband is Chinese") disarm loaded questions and offer examples of coping behavior. "I had to model appropriate behavior and give answers I hope my children would use," says Nancy G. Brown, co-founder of Multiracial Americans of Southern California and mother of Nicole and Rachelle, two biracial black-and-white girls. Her daughters, now teenagers, handle questions with aplomb and simple, swift replies...
...stands over her laundry in a wooden room in rural Tennessee. Lloyd sits in a chair near her, shivering under his blanket, devoured by a disease he is ashamed of and afraid to face. There is a perpetual tension between the two; Lloyd is sexually crippled and jealous of Mae, who has been seduced by an unbearable desire to educate herself. Indeed, at the school where she goes to learn rudimentary reading and mathematics, she has met an advanced reader named Henry, and she is falling in love...
With poems of unparalleled clarity and insight, Mary Oliver captures the startlingly simple elegance of the natural world. In House of Light and other volumes of verse, she harnesses transient impressions of the outdoors and then questions our relationship with nature and with ourselves. Recognizing the tension between human morality and the amorality of nature itself, Oliver suggests that her readers reconsider their perceptions of the defining differences between humans and birds and blades of grass and even the inanimate objects that fill our world. But even as she has, in over 35 years of writing, explored questions of personal...
Wilson said a sense of "mystery" is perhaps the most important cause of democracy, noting the tension between the desire for individual rights and the acceptance of others'--often-conflicting--needs...
Wilson said a sense of "mystery" is perhaps the most important cause of democracy, noting the tension between the desire for individual rights and the acceptance of others'--often-conflicting--needs...