Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lindbergh writes that her father "may have chosen it [the Ford] more in an attempt to camouflage and conceal his family from the world, a vehicle that mixed family travel with protection, part covered wagon and part battleship." In many ways Lindbergh's new memoir is an attempt to understand the peculiar relationship between covered wagon and battleship, family unity and "protective privacy," that has characterized so much of her life as a Lindbergh...
...actors, on the whole, are an extremely intelligent bunch who obviously understand the subtle emotional levels of the characters. The characters are for the most part men and women attempting desperately to fit themselves into acceptable family roles and stereotypes (the alcoholic father, the oppressed and dreamy mother, the shy, confused son, etc.), and the American Repertory Theatre players do a fine job of establishing both the stereotype and the substance of every character...
Despite these praise-worthy qualities, The Tennis Partner is certainly not served up and followed through perfectly, pardon the pun. Though you don't feel that you need to know the differences between the serving styles of John McEnroe and Bjorn Borg to understand the book, the incessant barrage of tennis lingo (as well as medical jargon) can become slightly tedious. The analogies and comparisons between tennis, medicine and life sometimes seem amazingly twisted and contrived, and sometimes annoyingly simple. To truly enjoy the book you will have to find it in your heart to forgive the occasional trite phrase...
...Throughout our entire lives we will be facedwith the opposite sex. This means that we hadbetter fully understand ourselves as a gender andhow we relate to the other gender if we can figureout why our stereotypes have been created and howthey affect us, we will have a better chance ofmaking life better for all people," she said
Mansbridge said one of the goals of the program is "to understand the role of gender in conflict resolution, and to put women in touch with one another to help overcome the barriers they face...