Word: generics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Well, I'm labelled class of '50 but my real class should be '48, I think," could be called a generic statement of the time...
...flexibility of human nature makes it impossible to distinguish generic influences on human behavior, Lewontin said...
...modes classifies literature "by the hero's power of action, which may be greater than ours, less, or roughly the same." They theory of symbols works on the basic principle of "polysemous meaning" in works. The theory of myths expands on Frye's basic premise in Fearful Symmetry. And generic criticism (using terms like drama, epic. and lyric) explains works in the context of "conditions established between the poet and his public," how literary works "are ideally presented...
...editors' organization of entries into sections entitled Love, Work, and Power provides for powerful articulation of this generic reality. The Love section deals with the contradictions inherent in the male vision of woman in terms of her function for others. This reduction goes to the extent of suggesting that love, whose essence is response to and support of another, is woman's "work," a concept of a fundamentally different order. However much sacrifice and abnegation involved, work has for the male remained a willful manipulation of ideas and material in the external world. The entries in the Power section...
WHAT THE MERGER essentially means is that we will all live under the generic name of Harvard. Now "Harvard" has a neatness of form that "Harvard-Radcliffe" undeniably lacks. It makes better copy, and far be it from me to deny the importance of that. Nor do I doubt that the corresponding "administrative complications" of hyphenation to which Rosovsky refers are many and awkward. But these are awkward times in which we live, and they call for more profound redress than a civil ceremony can provide...