Word: unraveling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strong public exception to the idea that homosexuality "undermines civilization." After all, if Western culture has been institutionally homophobic for thousands of years, what is wrong with undermining it? If the heterosexual, patriarchal family is so deeply entrenched in Western social and political institutions, then homosexual activity clearly must unravel the fabric of such a society and "undermine civilization." The "queer" polemicists at least have the advantage of facing squarely the radical implications of their social and political program; the BGLSA's attempt to hide behind a screen of stolid social respectability is simply naive...
...concerned about the politicalsurvivability of savings from Medicaid andMedicare," says Miller. "If the savings don'tmaterialize, the plan might unravel...
...pain. Here are Jessica's two sets of parents, those who conceived her and those who have raised her, fighting a passionate battle over who gets to keep her. Then there are all the other adoptive parents in the U.S., many of whom have been watching this ghastly spectacle unravel in the courts and go to sleep wondering whether their precious child will stay their child. And finally, of course, there is Jessica, the one party to the case who has most at stake and the smallest voice and is at the mercy of judges whose rulings at times have...
...within days, it all began to unravel. Cara saw her ex-boyfriend Dan Schmidt at work and told him everything -- that the baby she had just given up for adoption had been his all along. She began having second thoughts. She went to a support-group meeting of Concerned United Birthparents and heard other mothers' stories of the sorrow they felt at giving up their babies. On March 6 Cara filed a motion to get her daughter back, and a week later Dan did as well. Cara went out shopping for baby clothes...
...efforts to unravel the Gordian knot which now has choked and indeed, threatens to eliminate the "Mother of the art movement" (the Sert Gallery Exhibition Program at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts) within this institution. I have been awakened more clearly than ever before to the absolute necessity for the Le Corbusier edifice at 24 Quincy Street to put its house in order, and for the administration of this institution to sever the outdated, inextricable bonds of budgetary and administrative decision- making which still bind together the two separate entities of the Carpenter Center and the Department...