Word: hags
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...Polish students I taught were by no means narrow-minded and hag-ridden by doctrine," he noted. "In fact, one of them, with no formal education in English, had learned enough of the language through radio broadcasts and later by his own interest to deliver a graduate school seminar in English at the end of his stay...
...wedding march gets off to a fast start with some noisy satire about attire. Kay Thompson is a shrewd old hag who edits a fashion mag. "THINK PINK!" she proclaims, and the women of the U.S. obediently buy pink poodles and pink mink. Then the lady finds a Serious Theme: "Clothes for the Woman Who Is Not Interested in Clothes." But who will model them...
...inspiration for another poem, Provide, Provide was a strike of the University's scrubbing staff. The work begins, "The witch that came (the withered hag) to wash the steps with pail...
Possessed Psychologist. Dr. Stein confesses that when first confronted by such a formidable patient, the analyst himself "is liable to become possessed of his own witchlike soul." If hag and analyst survive this initial stage, they will eventually come cordially to loathe each other. At this point the patient begins to look "old, hard, spiteful and evil" and uses every instrument in her power short of tears to establish dominion over the analyst. (True to the medieval belief that witches cannot weep, Stein has never seen the loathsome woman shed a tear.) Alternately sadistic and seductive, Dr. Stein...
When Chaucer's young knight acts on this conviction and, in effect, gives her freedom to the old hag he has been trapped into marrying, she is promptly transformed into a beautiful and faithful young woman. The analyst, says Dr. Stein, must symbolically grant "sovereignty" to his hag patients by freely accepting "the negative destructive aspect of [his patients'] feminine nature" and casting aside his own "inquisitorial attitude." This, the doctor adds, "is the key to the secret which the analyst must discover if he is to deal successfully with 'loathsome women.' " How well does...