Word: objections
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Fellini's visual dramatics are alternately hilarious, grotesque or ritualistic. Every situation, every object, every character is extreme. One court is full of unbelievably rich, unbelievably ugly old duchesses, another revolves around a loathsome insect-like homosexual, the epitome of perversion. A third is the scene of bear-pit debauchery; here Casanova wins this contest: how many times can you came in an hour of fucking...
Eliminating this alternative would seriously narrow the range of undergraduate experiences. Yet, it is precisely this alternative that would be compromised if the CHUL adopts Dean Fox's plan. That proposal, which would establish three-year Houses throughout the system and house all freshmen in the Yard with the object of eliminating sophomores from Canaday Hall, is singular in its lack of sensitivity for the Quad point of view. One only needs to point out that Fox bases his arguments about the Quad's unpopularity on one of the Quad's acknowledged strong points--four-year Houses--to realize...
...word Republic I use as Thomas Paine, propagandist of the American Revolution, used it in his Rights of Man, to mean "not any particular form of government" but "the matter or object for which government ought to be instituted . . . res-publica, the public affairs, or the public good; or, literally translated, the public thing." This word describes the shared public concerns of people in different nations, the community of those who share these concerns...
...dowries is under attack. Legislative pressure for its abolition comes chiefly from the seven women in Greece's 300-member Parliament. A draft law doing away with dowries has been written-but Parliament is less than anxious to consider it. Predictably, it is the male lawmakers who most object to allowing women more latitude in governing their own affairs...
...from an infant girl's shocking discovery that she lacks a penis. Later, in about the third year of life, she carries this sense of castration and inferiority into the Oedipal cycle, blaming the mother for the loss of the penis, turning to the father as a love object, and converting the wish for a penis into a wish for a child. Childbearing and most of women's aspirations are thus, per Freud, attempts to compensate for the missing male organ, and penis envy becomes "the bedrock" of women's unconscious frustrations throughout life...