Word: manhoods
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...liked to relate ? being locked in a jail cell for five minutes, so he would know what happened to bad little boys, his fear of canings at his Jesuit preparatory school ? may not have shaped him totally. But surely he sensed, as he studied commercial art in his young manhood, that through art, it was possible to order things more agreeably than reality does...
...read Marx, but I was never really anti-American," he says, a trifle defensively. "I never thought America was fascist." He explains: "I think a lot of it was puberty. It was so exciting." If so, intense study in jail helped bring on Mar shall's capitalist manhood. He and his wife Dianne, 32, own a pleasant houseboat and mooring space on Seattle's Portage Bay. "Liberal economics just doesn't work," he now says firmly. "It did for a time, but not any more. Self-reliance, productivity and independence are important. We used to assume that...
...just turned 20, he participated in an exotic 8th century coming-of-age ceremony called kakan no gi (hat rites). Hiro, wearing a magnificent yellow robe, allowed chamberlains to replace the simple silk hat that once marked a minor with the ornate embi no ei (swallowtail ribbons) that symbolized manhood in ancient Japan. The presence of Grandfather Emperor Hirohito, 78, at the ceremony was especially auspicious. No other Japanese monarch has ever lived long enough to see a grandson switch hats...
...monogamous West because of the nature of the Tao and Tan-trie religions, which saw sex as an expression of a larger cosmic harmony. When a Chinese husband had intercourse with at least ten of his numerous wives and concubines in a night, it was less to prove his manhood than to receive an abundance of their precious yin essence...
...true pitch point of Trojan Women involves Hector's widow, Andromache (Billie Whitelaw) and her toddler son. Odysseus has convinced the Greeks that if the child grows to manhood, he may lead Troy in another war against the Greeks. He must be torn from his mother's skirts and dashed to death from the city's topless towers. One of the most wrenching scenes in all of Greek tragedy is shatteringly performed by Whitelaw when her little boy is taken and returned as a tiny corpse in the shell of Hector's shield...