Word: genetic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most controversial feminist met the professional criminal who was to become its most controversial playwright. "The conversation was most agreeable," said Jean-Paul Sartre. Last week, nearly six years after Sartre's death, his longtime companion Simone de Beauvoir, 78, died of a lung ailment. The next day Jean Genet, 75, succumbed to throat ! cancer. Said Premier Jacques Chirac, inarguably...
...Genet was born illegitimate, reared in a state orphanage and sent at seven to foster parents on a farm in central France. He became an altar boy, and the priest thought he had "a religious nature," but his foster mother caught him stealing from her purse. "You little thief!" she cried. Genet took that as his creed: "I answered 'Yes' to every accusation made against me, no matter how unjust . . .Yes, I had to become whatever they said I was . . . I was a coward, thief, traitor, queer, whatever they...
...juxtapose The Crimson's decision--whatever that decision has been--with the efforts of Jean Genet or martin Luther king Jr. ("The Crimson's Hubris") is rather breathtaking. Yet in one important sense there is a common denominator--Genet and King confronted power and rejected its claims. Does Michael W. Hirschorn really mean to suggest that waving Playboy's flag--while taking its cash--could be somehow equivalent...
...Genet was convinced of the immorality of the system, so he had no doubt that his audiences would react in disgust at the wanton decadence and hypocrisy of the establishment figures before them on the stage...
...anything, I believe Harvard women are turned off by the ad and will react strongly against the magazine and all it may stand for. Like Genet, I believe that moral goals are achieved by getting everything out in the open and allowing the people to see and react against evil...