Word: harems
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eternal Feminine," Greer's term for the stereotype into which society is pushing women, is a passive and pleasing creature. Like the eunuch of the harem, woman must please without being aggressive...
...rising anti-Americanism, reports TIME Correspondent Dan Coggin, is the fact that the proud and xenophobic Turks resent any sign of dependence on the U.S. "Atatürk's death in 1938 left Turkey in a limbo of incomplete Westernization," writes Coggin. "City-bred granddaughters of veiled harem favorites practice law and medicine in Ankara and Istanbul today. But in the Moslem countryside and small towns, where 80% of Turkey's 35 million people live, little has changed from centuries...
...performer for more than 50 years, is, to be charitable, miscast. As a latter-day Jocasta, she is too venerable to inspire a son with anything but pity or terror. Her older son, Sidney (Ron Leibman), is the sort of chap whom a caliph would choose to guard his harem. Living on Manhattan's East Side, Sidney shuttles frequently between his own pad and the Hocheiser private loony bin, where Gordon continually threatens to throw Mama out the window. Offense is the order of the day, particularly in one episode when a gang of blacks forces Sidney to strip...
...that happens is very everydayish, which actually enhances the play's humanity. The camp's commandant worries about the production quota: if it goes up, he gets a promotion; if it goes down, he faces ignominy or worse. The camp's doctor is busy assembling a harem of pseudo nurses. The camp's foundrymen are lured on to melt bronze by the promise of a bonus. They are cheated out of it. A doomed love blooms like a flower held in the outthrust hand of a tragic Charlie Chaplin...
...similar trend marked Rome long before its fall. Juvenal decried the ubiquity of foppish, feminine, perfumed males. Elagabalus appeared publicly in women's clothes. Caesar was likened to "every man's wife and every woman's husband"; Antony had a harem of men and women; and Nero is thought to have married a castrated male...