Word: chimeras
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...seems for the moment to be the most effective and efficient method of providing minority groups with equal opportunities in education. No one?save possibly school-bus manufacturers?is in favor of "busing for the sake of busing," the chimera that Richard Nixon belabors. Blacks, after all, have as strong a sense of neighborhood schools as whites do. But as Nicholas Hood, a black city councilman in Detroit, puts it: "It's pragmatic. We don't have any desire to be close to white people just for the sake of being close to white people. We want the same thing...
...every age, egalitarians have pursued the ideal of a classless society achieved through freedom of opportunity. Now a Harvard professor of psychology has branded the ideal a chimera. On the contrary, says Richard Herrnstein, educational equality and unrestricted social mobility will lead to a stratified society of hereditary castes...
...compliance in a marriage which will complete his emasculation. Jack, played with flair by Bernie Duffy, balks, then gradually weakens as Roberta titillates him with stories about a swimming guinea pig, a drowning baby and a Phoenix-like stallion. The last sequence in which Roberta snares Jack with this chimera of immortal virility is worth to anyone the price of admission...
...CURIOUS Beast might have been a Chimera, Except that the Head and skinny Neck, and great, drooping Tail of a Cock, were affixed to the Body of an Ass. Flopping at either Flank was a huge, Sludge-colored Wing, from the Tip of each of which grew a small Talon, causing great Mystery. Each hoof was a giant Talon grappling the Floor...
Other than homosexuals and all womankind, not the least of its victims in our antagonistic society are the heterosexual males, themselves caught up in a chimera of superiority deriving from a culturally unconscious past. Chauvinism, in all its sexual as well as racial aspects, is the real enemy of all men and women who seek the one security that is viable?community?and the one freedom that is transcendant?individuation...