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...expertise of how to win a man and keep him, how to flatter and flirt and sell their wiles. We disguised the jagged edges of our personalities to pander to the male appetite, and we sacrificed any principle for male applause. Trying to be siren seductresses was our assent to passivity and receptivity and all that men had laid down the definition of women to be. We gave up claim to doing what we were educated to need...
...NASA doctors and did not wear face masks. "If we catch a cold," joked Conrad, "it would be an honor to catch a cold from you two gentlemen." Brezhnev joined in the banter by asking Conrad to take the two leaders up to Skylab. Nixon cheerfully nodded his assent...
...with proper understatement by Jacques Weber, a newcomer to film) is absolutely ruthless in his refusal to countenance the lies Santore feeds him about the nature of Santore's work in Uruguay. Whenever Santore makes an allegation, the Tupamaro's information is so good that he is forced to assent by silence. Hugo shows him a photograph of two Brazilian police officials accused of torture. Santore denies he knows them. He is shown two more -- again a denial. Finally Hugo gives him another photo and says, "Here, you shouldn't have much trouble with him." It is Santore himself. Hugo...
...Santore. They talk it through. Santore, thinking as a professional policeman, admits that if he were in charge, he would allow himself (as prisoner) to be killed. Este asks him, "Do you mean you're more valuable to them dead than alive?" He can only nod silently his assent. At that moment, even he realizes the barrenness of his political position...
...that Salome, objectively speaking, poses much of one. While she initially allows herself a few mild objections to Freud's titanic pessimism, Salome's case for a better, potentially more creative human nature than Freud would assent to dwindles through the train of her letters. Freud, of course, is not the only corrosive element at work on her optimism. There was after all the war, whose effects are very much present in both sides of the correspondence. And there is the matter of aging. In this respect, the later letters offer a warmer, more gentle, and sometimes whimsical picture...