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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hurt because they cannot have human relationships with women. Men's roles are dehumanized too. We must conceal our weakness, maintain a myth of omnipotence. But we have been taught that our dealings in the "man's world" are what is really important anyway. Within the context of this dying society, we are the beneficiaries of sexism. While we become rich, famous, powerful, the shitwork will be done for us by "our" women, changing diapers, typing reports, washing dishes, scrubbing the floors. (If we are rich enough, we will let our wives out of some of these jobs by paying...
Allegro's method is to delve behind the surface meaning and context of biblical words, conjuring instead with their frequently erotic root meaning ("Christian," he says, is a derivation from the Sumerian meaning "smeared with semen"). These half-forgotten roots, Allegro maintains, link the characters and stories of the Bible to the orgiastic, often outlawed mushroom cults of the Near East. For example, the Greek word for "stumbling block," which is used to describe the crucified Christ in Corinthians I, once meant "bolt," which leads Allegro to connect it with the phallus-shaped "bolt-plant" mushroom; thus he concludes...
...literary line of unworldly New World girls, starting with Daisy Miller, who have pitted their innocence against Old World ambiguities of Europe and pluckily gone under. In her own words, Shirley is "warm, generous, brave even." She is also sloppy, tactless, catty, softhearted, scatterbrained, a compulsive quoter out of context and snooper in her husband's desk drawers, gigantically absentminded, passably promiscuous, desperately lonely, guilt-ridden, polyglot, and sympathetically drawn to other people's troubles. She does the wrong thing every chance she gets, and St. Joseph (her code word for fate) never fails to give her another...
...there was laughably little damage done to the door, and this letter implies that we lacked both the ability to really destroy it and the good sense to bring crowbars. A frame-up because we are innocent, and are only being brought before the CRR because of the political context of the "crime." As members of the SDS Radical Arts Troupe, we were performing on the top step and kicking against the door to simulate a beat for our latest smash hit, "The Book of War." We noticed several minutes afterward that one panel in the door had cracked...
...argument seems to have some merit. For ten years or longer all of us have lived in a special context, our thinking has been conditioned by compromises and pragmatic considerations. It is difficult to keep in touch with radical thinking and it requires vitality to search for novelty and change, if the daily work is the art of achieving the possible. Each of us will take up again the type of work we had before and probably none of us will have turned into revolutionaries...