Word: machos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That's fanaticism. And Henry Miller is not fanatic about anything, not even sex. Curiously enough, under the macho veneer of the critic's voice lies a kind of prudery. That Miller sublimates murderous inclinations into lust is plausible. But this camphorous old wives' tale--or old codger's tale, say--evinces fear of female sexuality. Mailer's near hysterical protestation of a woman's weakness fronts for an appalled reaction to her spongy, devouring vagina and the ballooning mystery of her womb...
...emotional pressure of being second-guessed comes on top of the considerable pressures of the job. Police continue to have an unusually high rate of divorce and suicide. But the macho need to deny any weakness is disappearing. One in every nine Boston police officers has sought counseling from the department's Stress Program, with alcoholism, gambling and depression topping the list of problems. Psychologist Peter Runkle reports that a number of cops he has seen from the force in Sacramento, Calif., have impotence problems, "usually the men who do the best job in the streets." The physical dangers...
...hints to get you started. The Marxist intellectual could scrutinize the ethnic bigotry and confusion, really very naive, of this pair of street-smart, macho New York adolescents. It's kind of culturally telling, you know, how they free associate from Turks and Indians to Native Americans and that most pious national holiday, Thanksgiving, then face off over whether or not their old ladies hump gobblers. The sociologist from HEW will tell us why Murph doesn't have anyone to go home to and devise training programs for sweet lady social workers so they don't give knives (for whittling...
...struggles for people who face the entire weight of a discriminatory and oppressive society arrayed against them, from mineowners to the goonish forces of law and order they control. But the unusual aspect of this film is its focus on women's participation in the strike: when the somewhat macho Chicano men are forbidden to picket by court order, the women go out on the line and win the strike...
After he earned his commission in 1946, Carter found Navy life less than fulfilling. His acceptance into the submarine program changed all that. In the first place, he loved the macho tradition of life aboard subs. He has always enjoyed the company of more outgoing, hard-living, salty-tongued men. Most of his closest advisers today fit that description, as did many of the men with whom he served on submarines. The spartan life aboard a submarine-the absence of many diversions-also appealed to Carter's love of work and problem solving in splendid isolation...