Word: abjectly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last! We candid slobs against abject surrender to force, who characterize ourselves as realists, have found a spokesman in Spiro...
...CLIMBING WILLIE'S LADDER. though, is a first novel and has its flaws. In the most introverted parts of the narrative (particularly at the beginning). Lebowitz edges towards the genre of the paranoid-Jewish-confessional novel, and he does not seem entirely comfortable with it. Willie's abject rantings and ravings about the dirt he exchanged with his ex-wives and lovers are laid on a bit too thick. It is only when Lebowitz brings Willie out of himself and into the world of a widow-friend of his late mother's and her tacky L.A. apartment or into...
...that, Kennedy, if not the extravert he once was, is far from being the abject introvert that he became after Mary Jo Kopechne's death. In a political sense, Kennedy seems to be learning to survive what might have seemed his certain destruction...
THERE ARE SEVERAL reasons why an effort to abolish the grading system should begin with an exam boycott. The first is that exams constitute the individual's most abject and intense subjection to the academic system. Exams are the most personally humiliating and meaningless situations that the academic system imposes on the individual student. They are also the point in the system where the dichotomy between learning and academic structure becomes most obvious: the very fact that an exam in English is conducted exactly like an exam in Geology is enough to make clear to many students the fact that...
...lover's gallery. The owner (Laurent Terzieff) looks like the sort of tubercular pervert who might peddle pornographic pictures to schoolchildren, but he gets his kicks from having fun with adults. He ties his girls in chains, photographs them in submissive attitudes, fondles and then bullies them into abject sexual surrender. The whole thing is pretty disgusting, what with the heroine being degraded, her lover becoming murderously outraged, and the dirty young man sadomasochistically savoring their traumas...