Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Londonderry. Northern Ireland, are of crowded living quarters and a multitude of dishes made of pork and butchers' leavings. He recalls an existence filled with hardships, hardships the Derry Catholics (Irish Catholics refuse to call Londonderry anything but Derry, for obvious political reasons) had little choice but to accept...
...smoothly, one cannot avoid suspecting her of manipulating information. I suppose I would have felt this less if some distinctly anti-male sentiments didn't frequently creep into the book, affording an almost universally negative impression of men. In many ways, Hite seems overly anxious for the reader to accept that men are continually boorish, selfish, uninspired and non-emotional...
...sell a single manuscript, and whose earnings for all his books in print during the past year had totalled $81.18, thought that his days were numbered. So when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer offered him a $1250 a week contract to write film scripts he had no choice but to accept. That his frustrating last years in Hollywood, when he tried, desperately, to make enough money in the movies and then leave, did not hurt Fitzgerald's talents, is Dardis's thesis. California did not corrupt writers, Dardis argues; it merely gave them what they needed...
...writers have had before, perhaps the unavoidable consequence of the effort to display the extent of women's oppression. But despite her extensive footnoting and bibliography, Rich begins to sound more extreme than most, her enthusiasm leading her to make contradictory and unsatisfying statements. At times, she seems to accept the household division of labor as it existed in subsistence-level lifestyles, blaming the Industrial Revolution for taking the meaning out of women's social roles. At others, she blames men in general for holding conflicting views of women. She spends two chapters tracing the development of contemporary obstetrics...
...refusal to accept the possibility that men might, change their attitudes to the patriarchal system forms the basis of another theme running through Of Woman Born. For what seems like years, Rich and Susan Sontag have waged an ongoing battle in the pages of the New York Review of Books on the relationship between marxist theory and feminism. According to Rich, the fact that patriarchy existed prior to capitalism proves conclusively that it will continue long after capitalism falls. The real "alienated labor," she suggests, is the labor of the birth process, and "the repossession by women of our bodies...