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...many of the offbeat cases, the implicit demand seems to be that all customary standards, tastes, proprieties and practices must yield to the whims and oddities of the individual. Still other cases seem to envision the abolition of all exclusivity, whether its purpose is malign or not. Exclusive societies of professionals (lawyers, doctors, engineers) exist for perfectly decent reasons. And certain groupings of artists for different decent aims. Yet, federal funds were briefly withheld from a Connecticut school on the ground that its boys' choir, by existing, encouraged sexist discrimination-and never mind the unique musical reasons why boys...
...proverbial clean slate, "Let's forget about last year" feeling that coaches are usually allowed after a sub-par season. Park, who had finished his first below-.500 campaign in eight years as head coach, went into his ninth closely watched by critics who deemed it necessary to malign the man when his team failed to garner any post-season honors for the first time since Park succeeded Norm Shepard...
Posthumous selections of unpublished poetry should be viewed suspiciously. The dead poet may have had good aesthetic reasons for keeping some of his work to himself. Fortunately, Henry's Fate does not malign the memory of John Berryman, who five years ago committed suicide at age 57. Critic John Haffenden has gathered 45 "Dream Songs" written after 77 Dream Songs (1964) and His Toy, His Dream, His Rest (1968)-the two books that certified Berryman as a major American writer. Henry, the fast-talking middle-aged hero of the dream songs, continued to suffer and thrive in Berryman...
...when Hussein's army took bloody action because the Palestinians had become so independent in their assaults on Israeli territory that they were defying the King's sovereignty. The army kicked the fedayeen completely out of Jordan; Arafat since then has missed few opportunities to malign the King. A Jordanian visit at this point would be a significant gesture for both...
...general, the writers seek to preserve Freud's notions of penis envy and the castration complex, but argue that the effects are hardly as malign as Freud thought. Analysts William Grossman and Walter Stewart suggest that penis envy in adult women should be interpreted as the "manifest content" of a problem-in other words, it is merely a metaphor for whatever may be troubling a woman, and not a "bedrock" problem...