Word: confronted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...charming but obsequious, interesting but not intellectual, involved -- but only with the children. And now, as women become more conscious of their status as a sexual class, it is no wonder that they seek the understanding and support of other women as an essential base from which to confront a society which would just as soon they stayed pregnant and in the home...
...their genuine needs. A father, for example, whose parents would never listen to him, may force his children to serve as his constant audience, frustrating their need to speak and to develop intellectually. The children, needing the father's love and depending on him for other kinds of support, confront a choice--talk and incur the father's resentment, or remain silent and preserve the semblance of love...
Franklin L. Ford, acting dean of the Faculty, said Tuesday, however, that the strike was causing "no serious disruption," and other administrators seemed to concur. Earlier that day, five Union members had attempted to confront President Bok, Ford, and Edward T. Wilcox, acting dean of the GSAS, but Wilcox alone was available and willing to see the delegates...
...Power Spot." It may confront, more clearly than the first three books, the final purpose of Don Juan's painful teachings: a special case of the ancient desire to know, propitiate and, if possible, use the mysterious forces of the universe. In that pursuit, the splitting of the atom, the sin of Prometheus and Castaneda's search for a "power spot" near Los Angeles can all be remotely linked. A good deal of the magic Don Juan works on Castaneda in the books (making Carlos believe his car has disappeared, for instance) sounds like the kind of fakir rope trickery...
...body is an awareness, and it must be treated impeccably." Easier said than done. Part of the training involved minutely, even piously attuning the senses to the desert, its animals and birds its sounds and shadows, the shifts in its' wind, and the places in which a shaman might confront its spirit entities-spots of power, holes of refuge. When Castaneda describes his education as a hunter and plant-gatherer, learning about the virtues of herbs, the trapping of rabbits, the narrative is absorbing Don Juan and the desert enable him, sporadically and without drugs...