Word: mythologists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...devoting her life. Keneally's passions, however, are too intense for mere realism. Observing that "absolutely millions of people" are mad with "family pride," he concludes that "the only way for them to get humility is through learning they're-you know-beasts." Accordingly, like a Greek mythologist with the heart of a gloomy seminary student, Keneally makes original sin literal by turning Father and Mother Glover into bull and cow from the waist down...