Word: ben
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First Chicago's board concluded that the executive storm had become a profitless rain dance. The board took just an hour and a half to decide on firing both executives. Says Executive Committee Chairman Ben Heineman, president of Northwest Industries: "It was all clean, simple and painful...
Some two dozen Sioux Indians sat in a semicircle on a pine-shaded lawn in Lincoln, Neb. One by one the Sioux rose to denounce Hanta Yo, Ruth Beebe Hill's bestselling book that reviewers have touted as the Indian version of Roots. Complained Ben Black Bear Sr., a steely-haired medicine man who addressed the crowd in his native Lakota: "I wouldn't look upon the Indian people as behaving like pte [buffalo...
...what she had felt for the men she had been with in her own realm, but she knew it had been nothing like this. It was as if she were relinquishing light and air for bonds that tightened as she breathed, growing into her flesh." Suffering still, she bears Ben...
Those who look for a feminist parable to begin at this point will be disap pointed. It is true that Al∙Ith is superior to Ben Ata; love between them cannot be achieved until he climbs and she falls. Yet Lessing's narrative imbues this war between the sexes with an urgent purpose, nothing else than the regeneration of life...
Both participants suffer. Ben Ata is slowly ennobled by contact with his bride, but at a cost of self-confidence. His once brutal decisiveness has been tempered by the uncertainties of reflection. Al∙Ith, experienced in the bloodless sex of her own zone, sinks into a passion and carnality as frightful to her as it is exhilarating...