Word: exploiter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even the concepts of courtly behavior and romantic love come in for attack. Chivalry represents, Millett says, simply "a sporting kind of reparation," and romance is a "means of emotional manipulation," which helps men to exploit women. (She does concede that romantic love is "convenient to both parties," particularly since it allows the female to overcome "the far more powerful conditioning she has received toward sexual inhibition.") The great myths of mankind, as interpreted by anthropologists, reinforce the themes of feminine subordination. Millett cites the legend of Pandora's box and the biblical tale of Adam's Fall, and says...
...even cordoned-off estuaries and bays to raise fish, man can give nature a helping hand. Fish farming is hardly new; as long ago as 475 B.C., a Chinese scholar-statesman named Fan Li wrote the first how-to-do-it treatise. But as marine biologists seek to exploit its full potential -especially as a way of relieving the world's chronic shortage of protein-water farming, or aquaculture, looms as an ever more important source of food...
...anything like an adequate production of consumer goods, the U.S.S.R. has spread its resources too thin. Much of Russia's tremendous natural resources in gas, oil and essential ores remain untapped because they lie in remote areas, which would require vast capital investment and an advanced technology to exploit them...
Against this background "The Revolutionary" really encourages me. While Hollywood keeps on trying to exploit and assimilate us like the grand, sick monster it is, it's great to see a new director win out-at least temporarily-within and over that system...
From his base in Denver, King in the past decade has built a complex of companies that explore for and exploit a wide variety of natural resources. Among them are oil and natural gas in the U.S., Canada and elsewhere, diamonds in South Africa, copper in Peru and ilmenite in Australia. Now King's realm is besieged. Stock in his King Resources Co. has collapsed from a high of $34 last year to $4.87 bid last week. Corporate officials concede that they are short of cash and having a hard time paying bills. Creditors have been pushing to collect...