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...wear out like old machines, as Thomas Jefferson, then 78, sagely wrote to the 81-year-old John Adams in 1814: "We must expect that, worn as they are, here a pivot, there a wheel, now a pinion, next a spring, will be giving way: and however we may tinker them up for a while, all will at length surcease...
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...
...still pursued, although with less candor about the pleasure involved: some tribal or nationalist rationale ("Greater Serbia!") is proclaimed. Even after the cold war has ended as big-battle war seems to have become extinct -- the Gulf War perhaps a last set piece of tank warfare -- parvenu nations tinker in their basements with homemade nukes. Even more ominous is the global inundation of handy conventional weapons, a planetary democratization of firepower trickling down to Third World villages and the hip pockets of American schoolchildren...
Pringle admits to the crime, but Benson pleads "not guilty"; the play centers on the lies and truths told on all sides to get him acquitted. To make matters more complicated, a Scotsman Lenny (Michael Fields) is out to get something from Gordon. And greenhouse tycoon Tinker McTear (Richard Yanowitz) has an interest in Benson's future. Although ultimately many of the loose ends are never tied up, the play ends with a sense that everything will turn out as it should...
...Against Defamation: "Homosexuality is not something to justify and explain, but something that should be accepted. Until people accept us, all the scientific evidence in the world will not do anything to change homophobia." Moreover, gays are worried that precise identification of a "gayness gene" might prompt efforts to tinker with the genetic code of gay adults or to test during pregnancy and abort potentially gay fetuses. Says Thomas Stoddard, director of the Campaign for Military Service: "One can imagine the science of the future manipulating information of this kind to reduce the number of gay people being born...