Word: canting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hounds of the Radziwills. J'aime Joys. Menasha Troy. Ladonna Oldsmobile. Teas Eliot. Troubles With My Cant, by Green Grams. Against Impenetration, by Su Sanstag. Joseph Awfulsop. Devil's Avocado. Schwahili (the language spoken by Schweitzer). Dr. Dyingstone, I exhume...
...trying to describe: one brother in my cell, after chanting with the rest of us. "WE WANT LUNCH" for ten minutes, and after having asked for an hour for permission to please be able to go to the bathroom, and being refused and then ignored, finally screamed: "YOU CANT TREAT US LIKE TILIS. WERE MEDDLE CLASS...
...sadism because they are already sadistic. Political Scientist Wilson Carey McWilliams argues this point well: "Degeneracy becomes socially visible, emerging from underground, only when it has reason to expect a welcome. Certainly this is the case in relation to sexuality. Our verbal sexual morals had become nothing more than cant some time ago. Worse, they were a form of hypocrisy which discouraged respect...
...decide what it is that we need and want, and to begin to create a place and an atmosphere where we can find ourselves and fulfill our needs. The center is the experience of growth, of self-definition. What it is depends on what we make it be; we cant' wait around for "those women" to turn it into something we can relate to-but we can be there, we can live there and turn it into what we want it to be, for ourselves, for our sister, together, growing, strong...
After six years of mounting campus turmoil, students seem suddenly to have reverted to a quiet, private style of life. Instead of taking over, they are taking in their classes; instead of raging in the streets to protest national issues, they toil on committees studying campus problems. The abrasive cant of radicals is scarcely to be heard. Such square fads as booze, early Beatle records and card playing are making something of a comeback. It is not a throwback to the silent '50s. As the demonstrations against the Laos invasion by South Vietnam forces last week showed, the students have...