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There is a rich vein of misogyny, or at the very least, a virulent strain of anti-feminism running through this novel. Margaret, at age 28, agonizes about her husband's purported infidelity moaning that "he has forsaken my aging flesh for-for what? To lose him to some exquisite little girl with long hair flicking like a horse's mane, a student drawn to him and he to her, intoxicated with the wine dark words of Walt Whitman, yes, okay, that's as it should be." Since when does turning 30 signal the onset of senescence? Admittedly, there...
Students say Eliot has forsaken its stereotype as the WASP house where the slogan "Are you on the guest list?" marks the T-shirts which residents sport beneath Polo button-downs...
Hast thou forsaken us, Messiah? Wilst thou come again...
When pundits speculated that Joseph P. Kennedy II might abandon his U.S. House seat two years ago to seek the governorship, Barrett says he considered making a bid for the position. But now, Barrett appears to have forsaken any designs he had on the House seat, saying that Kennedy is "just settling in" and that "he's doing a wonderful...
...generation has forsaken its responsibility to get young people involved," Wright said. "We haven't been building any bridges. I want people to know the technical skills of politics so they can act on their convictions...