Word: eunuch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stories in this sense are "Errors" and "Passions," each a kind of story-telling session among a group of men, evolving from simple tales into more complex elaborations on the same basic themes: mistakes and obsessions. In "Errors" the first of these two tales have been told when Meyer Eunuch, the wise one, interrupts to say that neither were really about errors, but willful malice, and then relates the story of a young man in rabbi school who makes a mistake so bad that his teacher says: "You want to be a rabbi? A shoemaker you should be." The point...
Western feminists have their own complaints about the U.N. extravaganza. Australian Author Germaine Greer (The Female Eunuch) has denounced it as "an extension of Madison Avenue feminism" set up as if the objective were to have poor women farm workers "lay down their hoes and light up a Virginia Slim." Ms. Editor Gloria Steinem arrived in Mexico City with a similar complaint. The conference, she said, "could trivialize the women's movement. The very idea of the Year of the Woman becomes clear when we consider we don't have the Year...
...This," declared Master Chef Danny Kaye, "is Empress Chicken with Devoted Eunuch Vegetables." His audience, ten Bay Area gourmets who had enlisted for a cordon crêpe de Chine course at Mme. Cecilia Chiang's restaurant, The Mandarin, was suitably impressed, gasping as a duck skin was brutally inflated with a bike pump to demonstrate how to make Peking duck. Kaye started coming to class last year; then, when his old friend Mme. Chiang (no kin to Mme. Chiang Kaishek) fell ill, he stepped in as instructor. Danny still makes the weekly trip from his Beverly Hills home...
Harvard should extend the trend this weekend. Columbia is in town, and well, to put it gently, the Lions offense is about as potent as an 89-year-old eunuch...
Liberated Woman Germaine Greer, author of the bestselling book The Female Eunuch, is rarely without something shocking to say. Still, British readers who picked up her regular column in London's Sunday Times were bemused. IT'S TIME VD WAS SOCIALLY ACCEPTED, the headline announced, and the story went on to argue, with slightly Shavian logic, that the pox is now so prevalent that no one who has it should be obliged to feel guilty. "I wish at this point I could announce publicly I had had a venereal disease," Ms. Greer concluded. "Despite a lifetime of service...