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* One celebrated male author read by millions of parents has thrown himself zealously into the job of excising sexist references from his work: Benjamin M. Spock, M.D. Spock is, for example, changing the pronouns "he, him, his" to "they, them, their" or adding "she, her, hers" for the 202nd printing...
Aside from learning how to survive, Inuit are schooled only in tradition. Their courtly language lacks pronouns-Papik refers to himself as "a man" -and the same selflessness marks their customs. "Be one!" Papik says, urging another hunter to share his wife. In fact, Inuit share everything from basic emotion...
A tiny bouquet, however, for one line-reading. When Macbeth starts up the stairs to kill the king, and a bell rings, almost all editions have him say, "Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell/That summons thee to heaven, or to hell." Weaver says, "me to hell." This...
There are other criticisms one could make from a literary point of view. Very few of Lessing's characters get off without one or another dehumanizing analysis of their personalities. Lessing has an annoying habit of randomly doing away with articles and pronouns. She occasionally writes a very bad sentence...
Prematurely aged by his back-breaking tasks, buffeted by climate, indentured to a severe land, a Swedish Job is sometimes tempted to curse God and die. Instead, he retains his faith-in a remote ideal called the United States of America. His family is similarly enchanted; one of them chortles...