Word: expression
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year-old Mary Moran composed a sharp attack on "the absurdity of this holiday. Thanksgiving seems to be pretended, a farce, little more than an outdated tradition no one has yet found time to discard." Said a dismayed Governor Philip Noel: "I could not sign that as an expression of my thinking. Everyone in this country has something to be thankful for." He should not have been quite so dismayed, since Mary Moran's essay went on to express the wish that people would relearn "the art of thankfulness," by balancing their hopes against what they can realistically attain...
...perfectly; the three novellas are linked thematically by it. More precisely, it is the breaking of search and seizure laws. Elkin's heros are badmen, who justify their acts through mixed-up metaphysical rules reflecting all of the saturnalian immediacy of today's politics. At the same time, they express deeper strains of human nature which will ensure Elkin's place among the best of modern novelists...
...British press, predictably, had a field day. SUNSHINE PRINCESS is A STUNNER, bleated the London Evening News. MY PRINCESS, bannered the Daily Express possessively. Television built up to the big event with all the suspense of a moon shot. From fond accounts of Anne's girlhood visit to a monkey farm in Malta to interviews with the sexton who would ring the church bell in Mark's home town of Great Somerford, no detail seemed too trivial to mention...
...strong medicine: "Because we are part of the imposed culture we cannot understand why a flat renunciation of all imposed culture is an indispensable step in the Third World's developing independence." So, Cox angrily explains, "We are baffled by the way dominated people often use their religion to express their rage in the battle for cultural and political independence." In our inability to accept that rage we are overlooking "the most important religious revolution of our time," the "conversion" of the people of Africa, Asia and Latin America towards self-emancipation. Too little of Third World religion is actually...
Groups of women or men only can facilitate a more honest examination of individual psychology. Sexually mixed groups of even self-proclaimed radicals often cannot address women's issues effectively because of personal tensions between women and men radicals. Women members often hesitate to express their feelings, or they express themselves in a way which is geared unwittingly to win the approval of men in the group. Men members similarly fall into attempts to dominate the discussion or into a competition to show who was the most "oppressed" by society's imposition of a machismo-oriented male role...