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...best federal prisons, and Hoffa, assigned to a job of recycling old mattresses into new ones, had one of the easier situations. Nevertheless, he hated prison for its deliberately debilitating effect on mind and body. "Everything that goes on is designed to strip you of your manhood. You only get medical attention if you're ready for an operation. The food is horrible. There aren't sufficient exercise facilities, and a lot of people are afraid to expose themselves to possible violence or trouble, so they stay in their cells and vegetate." The violent or troublesome are taken...
Well he smaller than I had expected. At least, he's not the brawny specimen of British manhood he appears or film. Rather thin and well-dressed, soft spoken and polite. A mild joker in a veddy British way. "I'm an absolute tea-fiend. Get me some immediately, or else I shall have to inject it into my veins." (Take that damn foreigner down to Harlem.) A refined version of the feline eyes, two-coloured hair, the endearingly bumpy nose projected on the movie-screen. The Oxford accent, my dear, of course unmistakable: but not an affected one. Rather...
...woman: "Within the black community, most of the women are working both financially and emotionally to bolster their men. Black women want to unliberate themselves from the role as head of the house. We feel it is now up to us to help our men more, to enhance their manhood...
...prescient forebear of Ruether and Daly saw no problem in Jesus' manhood. Nor did she seem rattled by masculine pronouns for God. Lady Julian of Norwich, an anchoress who lived in Chaucerian England in the 14th century, laid out her prophetic theology in a book called Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love. "God, Almighty, is our kindly Father," wrote Lady Julian. "God, all-Wisdom, is our kindly Mother." As for the Second Person in the Blessed Trinity-the Person incarnated in Jesus Christ-Lady Julian found that he was strongly feminine: "our Mother in kind, in whom we are grounded...
...well -transpontine. Between Kahn and the game flowed the mainstream of American experience. On his side was a Jewish family life in which culture was spelled with a capital K. On the other side were those muscular, spitting, foulmouthed heroes in flannel knickers who represented an ideal of American manhood...