Word: obloquy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year-old boys worked in the mines of Pennsylvania, and girls of six helped run the mills of the South. The regular work week ran as high as 84 hours, the pay from $1 to $3 a week. Each time the workers tried to organize, they earned only public obloquy and a growing list of martyrs. The right to organize was not firmly and finally established until the 1930s, when more than 100 working men and women were killed by police or by company thugs during strikes and hunger marches. The decades since then have been almost unnaturally peaceful. Militancy...
...Wallop's relief does not last long. Her own son Osgood, a struggling writer in New York, publishes a novella entitled The Duchess of Obloquy. Sandwiched in its entirety between Emma's own narrative, it moans the familiar tale of the castrated son. Through its absurd parodic details, however, De Vries engineers a nimble satire of contemporary attitudes on sex, race and Women...