Word: confront
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...juncture at adolescence. Drawing on interviews with youngsters in Boston and students at public and private schools -- including the Emma Willard School in Troy, N.Y., and the Laurel School in Shaker Heights, Ohio -- Gilligan and her collaborators conclude that girls reach a psychological impasse around age 11 when they confront the conventions of a male-dominated culture. They discover that their intense awareness of intimacy is not highly prized, even though society perceives women as caring and altruistic. The dilemma, says Gilligan, is that "for girls to remain responsive to themselves, they must resist the conventions of feminine goodness...
...1/2-page interview prepared for reviewers and booksellers by the author and his editor Robert Asahina attempts to explain Ellis' intent and confront the inevitable controversy. "I don't think it's a novelist's job to give little moral lessons," says Ellis. But making moral judgments is precisely what he does, not only in the novel, with its hateful portrayals of Manhattan yuppies as mindless consumers, but elsewhere in the muddled handout that is intended to clarify his aesthetic. "The characters in all my novels are superficial," he writes. "They don't understand what's really going on in their...
...book was the 1988 Pulitzer- prizewinning The Making of the Atomic Bomb. The connection between events leading to Los Alamos and an obscure domestic tragedy in Kansas City is not readily apparent -- except to the author. Each story, writes Rhodes, "focuses on one or several men of character who confront violence, resist it or endure it and discover beyond its inhumanity a narrow margin of hope...
...farms, the ranches and the small towns were our sources of decency," says Jackson. "They seeded the cities in Ike's time. Now they are vanishing. Our cultural seed stock came from church, school and the community baseball team. We must now confront the Jeffersonian idea about living in harmony with the land. Is it mere nostalgia, or is it a practical necessity...
...Palestine Solidarity Committee will break from SAS's non-political stance and actively support a two-state solution to the crisis in Israel's occupied territories, Abu-Ghaida said. "We don't want to have the usual movies and lectures," she said. "We want to confront people with the situation...