Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mira is the central character in this book. She spent her childhood on a leash in her suburban backyard. (At age five, Mira had taken off all her clothes and toddled to the store. Her parents didn't much like the idea of roping her up but didn't think they had much of an alternative.) She is a bright, lonely child who skipped ahead several grades in school and read Nietzsche while her girlfriends giggled over boys. In college Mira comes into her own, speaking her thoughts and expressing her curiousity. The reader resents, as Mira did, the male...
Almost half of all students leave school at age 16, after studying as many as a dozen subjects, including a foreign language. Meanwhile, grammar school students continue a rigorous university-oriented curriculum, including English, French, math and science. The elite private schools, even more demanding, routinely push students through 13 subjects...
...face fills the screen, shot in extreme closeup. We see eyes, a nose, a mouth; not enough, for the moment, to decide age or sex. The eyes are wide open, perhaps in wonder, perhaps in horror. Now we see the fingers of a second person palpating the flesh of this face, neither gently nor roughly, folding back the upper lip to examine the teeth; turning the head to inspect the lobe of an ear. The camera draws back, and it is seen that the face is that of a middle-aged woman, naked. The fingers are those of a white...
...have absorbed as much bile in their mother's milk as the son of Marguerite Oswald. Her sense of grievance against a world that she felt owed her a living pervaded Lee's life, causing him, at the age of 20, to seek some fancied redress in the U.S.S.R. Though the Soviets finally accorded the American defector privileged status-with perquisites that included an apartment of his own and a cash subsidy-the Soviets' largesse could not satisfy Lee's inexhaustible demands...
...Wilhelm Reich, he observed, "politics are for those whose orgasm is incomplete." Yet his politics have had no small effect on his life's work, he says, some of the main topics he discusses with his colleagues are "revolutionary politics and problems of power in the world." From the age of 12 he was a Marxist and a member of the Yugoslavian Communist Party. Many of his film-making friends were members of a group they called Creative Marxists. They, like he, had no belief in dogmatic, non-flexible political doctrine...