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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...childhood; and indeed, it becomes clear that she has not progressed very far beyond it. She is a frightened and sorrowful child who can't join in family gaiety, nor be comforted by her mother (herself a tormented woman). Not nurtured in an atmosphere in which she could easily express her fears and doubts, she represses them, and funnels her passions into her religious beliefs: anything she likes becomes an emanation of divine grace. She is always referred to as being ill, even in the older sisters' flashbacks; and, though her minister claims her faith had rock-ribbed strength...
...Crimson learned Monday that members of the family that donated Black Rock Forest--part of which is needed for the project--to the University had met with Administration representatives, reportedly to express opposition to the special committee report on the forest released last month...
Thus Roland Barthes's essay on "The New Citroen" and the magic of its attraction, in Mythologies. A smooth, silent, seamless object, the modern automobile speaks the myth of a nature which is miraculous and benign. No longer does the automobile express mere speed, but speed with natural grace. Its surface and shape defy the sense of touch, make it seem already in motion, and imply a nature which is orderly and self-coherent. It is like a goddess who brings the order of heaven down to earth--and prostitutes herself to every petit-bourgeois who can afford the monthly...
...cannot express the unutterable shame, guilt and helplessness that I feel upon realizing that I helped put Mr. Nixon back in a position to continue to wage a war -in such a brutal fashion-that everyone admits to have been a mistake in the first place...
...also that he would like to change his job for something better, [HEW] concludes that he is 'alienated' from his work. One gets the firm impression that the authors of this study believe that to have unfulfilled aspirations, to daydream, to engage in wishful thinking, or to express regret for lost opportunities (real or imaginary) is less than human. It also apparently never occurs to them that it is Utopian to expect ordinary working people to be as content as the most successful surgeon or lawyer. Why should they be? How could they be? Where and when have...