Word: pigged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weakness, it turns out, is that in Nashville the characters don't have real choices to make, they are trapped in a society without decisive options. This is a view of America "in a pig's eye," he says. In fact, the Nashvilleans represent "a tiny segment of" American life. "These people do not have real decisions to make. They concern themselves chiefly with appearance and image. If they fall, they must move on. Inevitably their lives are hollow, their values shallow," Kraft admits that sometimes, "on the campaign level," politicians may concern themselves with image to the detriment...
...close the precapitalist world was to the Middle Ages in most material conditions of life. Some statistics: world production of pig iron soared from 10 million tons in 1867 to 357 million tons a century later. As late as 1850, human muscle and animal power accounted for 94% of the energy used in U.S. industry; today they supply less than 1%. Populations burgeoned as capitalism produced the food and goods to keep unprecedented numbers of people alive. North America's population exploded from 5.7 million in 1800 to 81 million by 1900 and 339 million...
...Freshman Union's male chauvinist pig dinner...
...angry rhetoric has cooled, the marches are less frequent, and so are the ritual roastings of that familiar foe, the male chauvinist pig. A more mature feminism has come to focus on the drive for equality on the job, in the home and in the nation's political life. Three years ago, in a special issue devoted to an examination of "The New Woman" (March 20, 1972), TIME set out to report, among other things, where she stood in politics, business, the professions and other fields. Since then, events have sharpened the American woman's perception of herself...
...positively reveled in his reputation as an ogre. Around a scowling self-portrait, he once wrote. "I loathe everybody--I love to bully--Everybody is an Ass--I am an overbearing beast--I hate my fellow man--confound everything--I like pinching little babies--I am an ill-tempered pig and I glory in it--W.S. Gilbert...