Word: manhoods
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...national soul-searching. Is U.S. society too violence-prone, gun loving, trigger-happy to let its leaders mingle openly with its people? Is it so sick that it spawns and encourages the lethal fantasies of its alienated mental misfits? Once again, the indignant demands. Presidents must stop proving their manhood by barging into crowds of strangers or strolling within gunshot range of waiting spectators. The press must cease providing crazies with a podium for instant notoriety. Better ways must be found to protect the President. Somebody, if not all Americans, must bear the blame...
...Port Elizabeth. This is Sizwe's chance--in drunken self-righteousness and rebellion, he at first refuses to steal the bewysboek and take on the dead man's identity, because for a black man in South Africa, his name is all that he has, the last proof of his manhood. But he finally relents, and Sizwe Banzi is dead...
...kind of enjoyed the Army--not the combat part, but the idea of surviving basic training and the Central Highlands wilderness." And he senses that, oddly enough, when his Harvard peers encounter him, the respect they show him is "more out of this American male idea of proving your manhood" than out of any guilt feelings over Marton's fighting in their, or their brothers' stead. Marton says he hasn't met people here who feel they are morally superior to me because they avoided the draft and I didn...
...White House, President and Mrs. Ford were watching the late evening news recently when a funereal chorus of seven black-clad women appeared on the screen. "Betty Ford," they intoned, "will be remembered as the unelected First Lady who pressured second-rate manhood on American women." The mummery was yet another attack upon Mrs. Ford for her enthusiastic lobbying on behalf of the Equal Rights Amendment, which would guarantee women equality with men under the law. But the self-possessed First Lady was hardly unnerved. "I went to bed laughing," she said. "Jerry...
...tame squirrels and a hunchback! Everybody, not excepting the parrot, was wrought up to a pitch of intense excitement." As the Confederacy was closing down, a woman diarist wrote in wonderful magnolia prose: "There they go, the gay and gallant few, the last flower of Southern manhood...