Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...abandon the arms dreaming...
...renounced Radcliffe under the banner of nobullshit equality. Anything that singled out our femaleness was sexist and degrading; masculine advances to our feminity were repugnant to our New Femininity. When we voted for cohabitation we voted to abandon Radcliffe as our shrine. We carried only our sex to Harvard, but we rejected its traditional symbols. There were no longer any institutionalized times or places for girls to be girls or boys to be boys. Many men hightailed back into final clubs or athletics, but Radcliffe surfaced ubiquitous, from House crew to Lampoon. And Harvard started to dress differently--women foreswore...
...those years of study but the nature of the revelation he offers that has run Castaneda afoul of rationalists. To join another man's consensus of reality, one's own must go, and since nobody can easily abandon his own accustomed description it must be forcibly broken up. The historical precedents, even in the West, are abundant. Ever since the ecstatic mystery religions of Greece, our culture has been continually challenged by the wish to escape its own dominant properties: the linear, the categorical, the fixed...
Apex. Moreover, like most men who have explored mystical separate realities and returned, he seems to have reentry problems. According to the books, Don Juan taught him to abandon regular hours ? for work or play ? and even in his apartment in Los Angeles he apparently eats and sleeps as whim occurs, or slips off to the desert. But he often works at his writing as many as 18 hours a day. He has great skill at avoiding the public. No one can be sure where he will be at any given time of day, or year. "Carlos will...
...high mark of 80. Considering that farm productivity has changed drastically in six decades, the notion of fixing farm prices to achieve a certain parity point is about as sensible as an attempt to set the defense budget on the basis of musket prices. The Administration wisely hopes to abandon parity in setting new price floors...