Word: towards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...baby boomers now have children of hunting age; surely the approach many boomer parents take to hunting is colored by such influences long ago. The nation's culture wars--and the absence of big real wars as the theater of heroes--meanwhile have changed the balance of attitudes toward male and female virtues. Nurturer's virtues, in some circles, find it difficult to coexist with warrior's virtues--as if the nurturer now aspired to surpass the warrior in self-righteousness and sentimental hypocrisy...
...under a tarp. The image of idiot hunters fueled by beer and bourbon and blazing away at anything that moves in the forest--sometimes firing from the cabs of pickups--has made many hunters sheepish. They have developed a sense of image and public relations. Any residual tendency toward the killer's swagger has been replaced by an official vocabulary that comes dangerously close to the touchy-feely...
...from Big Coon Creek, near the town of Skyline, in northeastern Alabama, Cedric Stephens, 13, and his father wait for two hours on a mountainside, leaning against a hardwood tree in a misting rain. Miserable hunting. Just as they are about to give it up, Cedric sees antlers coming toward...
...literature in a modest aspirant form." At the podium, a smiling Updike read Wolfe's vivid if catty 1964 account of Updike receiving his first National Book Award: "He squinted at the light through his owl-eyed eyeglasses, then he ducked his head and his great thatchy medieval haircut toward his right shoulder." "Newspapers don't lie," Updike mischievously remarked before adding, "I remember the event as being rather intimate and sedate...a small low room with a scattering of librarians in flowered hats on folding chairs...
...more of the one that has lagged to maintain your desired mix of stocks, bonds and cash. I even endorse shifting among assets with part of your portfolio--no more than 20%--to try to take advantage of specific conditions every so often. Early this year I suggested tilting toward bonds because stocks were overvalued and lower interest rates seemed likely. Some wags would call that timing. I call it adjusting to the shifting balance of risk and opportunity. Besides, investing should be at least some fun, or you will lose interest...