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THERE IS NO glorification of women writers or characters here. Spacks criticizes Esther Greenwood for the self-indulgent aspects of her madness and turn-of-the-century author Mary MacLane's failure to follow up her claim to genius with appropriate evidence. However, her criticisms are sympathetic, placing women in their historical-cultural contexts. She exposes the successes and failures of women as they try to overcome the situations in which the find themselves. These many misadventures, Spacks suggests, are merely different responses to the same reality, that of powerlessness...
...destructive condition--a cause for utmost ambivalence in virtually all women. The beautiful woman dreads that pregnancy will disfigure her. The career woman fears that motherhood will distract her. And the growing woman fears that motherhood will enslave her. Spacks again finds that an adolescent, in this case. Esther Greenwood from The Bell Jar, sees most explicitly the destructiveness which this particular kind of creativity can cause...
...TIME homes are a toad, Pierrot, kept by Deputy Chief of Correspondents Benjamin Cate's children, two raccoons belonging to Senior Editor Marshall Loeb's daughter, Margaret, and Picture Editor John Durniak's boa constrictor, Charlie. Legends about TIME pets breed like rabbits. Show Business Secretary Esther Nichols' parakeet, Rosebud, is said to have been rescued from an attempted suicide after diving from a fifth-floor window overlooking Madison Avenue, while Copy Desk Assistant Judith Paul's late Chihuahua-terrier crossbreed, Cookie, was known to hunt bees, crack walnuts and eat corn...
...pleased to see the special section on "The World Food Crisis" [Nov. 11], but I was appalled to read the sentence: "American Consumer Advocate Esther Peterson already questions the wisdom of providing food for hungry countries when the U.S. cost of living continues to climb." This is the antithesis of my views...
...Esther Peterson...