Word: phenomenons
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Lessing is a genuinely sui generis literary phenomenon, inexhaustible and defiantly unique - her oeuvre runs to over 40 books. Her principal theme is the experience of women in contemporary society, which she addressed most ambitiously, and successfully, in The Golden Notebook, her 12th novel, published in 1962. A formal tour de force, The Golden Notebook is the story of a divorced writer named Anna Wulf told through her four notebooks, each of which is concerned with recording a different aspect of herself. Brilliant, autobiographical and feverishly experimental, it's a bravura portrait of a shattered self, richly adorned with ruthless...
...play in “Driving to Zigzigland,” being shown on Oct. 6, 5pm at Kendall Square Theatre. A hungry, edgy Arab football team wins the Israeli national cup in “Hardball.” The Boston Palestine Film Festival will become a yearly phenomenon, according to its organizers—no matter how controversial its films may be.As Roy Cohen ’10, an Israeli citizen, says, “I am very happy that some of the films are shown in Coolidge Corner Movie Theatre, as it is located in the center...
...spent about a third as much time with his kids as the average mom did. By 2000, that was up to three-fourths. The number of stay-at-home fathers has tripled in the past 10 years. The Census counts less than 200,000, but those studying the phenomenon say it's probably 10 times that number. Fathers' style of parenting has changed too. Men hug their kids more, help with homework more, tell kids they love them more. Or, as sociologist Scott Coltrane of the University of California, Riverside, says, "Fathers are beginning to look more like mothers...
...recent broadcast of “Real Time with Bill Maher,” America’s perennially cynical libertarian launched into a diatribe protesting the recent phenomenon of lactivism. Yes, lactivism...
...politics - I don't mind saying there is a very strong Latin component to it. I'm a daughter of the middle class with a strong sense of social mobility and individualism, like the waves of immigrants, like my Spanish grandparents, who made Argentina. But Eva was a unique phenomenon in Argentine history, so I'm not foolish enough to compare myself with her. Women of my generation owe her a debt: When we came of age during the dark [military] dictatorship of the 1970s, we had her example of passion and combativeness to get us through...