Word: manhoods
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Well, one chief executive said to me that the chief executive does not like to lose his manhood. When his company is taken over, he's no longer the prominent man in his industry. He no longer calls the shots, and that's a terrible blow to people who have called the shots...
...example, Kelman carves the Harvard population into several groups. With the exception of himself and his friends in the Young People's Socialist League, everyone is either: a "hereditary radical." the son or daughter of old-time agitators; part of the declining gentry, trying hard to find lost manhood; a natural troublemaker, one who is "mentally ill"; or a member of the vast horde of "alienated" moderates, who are all unhappy because they have too much time to think about things...
Troilus screams that the worth of Helen is infinite, which means indeterminate, capable of justifying the furthest thrill of insanity. He believes he is realistic when he calls for the preservation of "manhood and honor" by the vigorous prosecution of an irreversible war. That war is stark violence. Does this begin to sound compellingly relevant? As litility devours reason, the Renaissance heroic ideal of wise action becomes food for unheroic savagery. Troilus eats up reason in seeking honor as "the wide world's revenue." Hector dimly sees that appealing to infinite abstractions may insensibly transform public standards into an anarchy...
...Berrigans contend that revolution must begin with profound personal change, because other human development is impossible without it. They recognize that a violent society can invite equally violent revolution, but they do not counsel it. In his new book, No Bars to Manhood, Daniel Berrigan suggests the temptations that the revolutionary must face. Excerpts...
...look conveys." But an approaching black girl conveys another look. " Traitor. Talking Black and sleeping white.' " The black women's liberation movement has its male adherents, like Eldridge Cleaver, who apostrophized: "Flower of Africa, it is only through the liberating power of your relove that my manhood can be redeemed...