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...more radical wing of the movement would not be content, however, with such prosaic gains. They call for a drastic revision of society in general. In their view, the sexual roles must be redefined so as to free both sexes from the stereotypes and responsibilities that have existed for ages. The concept of man as hunter and woman as keeper of the hearth, these feminists declare, is obsolete and destructive for both sexes. It is not enough simply to share these roles without removing the pressures and drives that men now bear. To do so would merely give women...
...this, then, the role of the poet in a civilization sliding downhill-the metaphorical fate reserved for a Borges? Is prosaic reality the only escape today? Elsewhere in his writings, Borges suggests that there is such a thing as a surfeit of language. In a parable about Shakespeare, he writes that the dramatist, fired with the need to fill his own emptiness of spirit, created a rich panoply of kings, villains and lovers. In time, he wearied of all the pomp and splendor and abruptly returned to a plainer reality. Aged and blind, Borges may have sought a similar respite...
Northwest Airlines Flight 305 began as the most prosaic of milk runs. It started in Washington, D.C., at 8:30 a.m. last Wednesday, with scheduled stops at Minneapolis, Great Falls and Missoula, Mont., Portland, Spokane and finally Seattle. What happened en route rivaled Alfred Hitchcock's more baroque fantasies. In the most elaborate skyjacking ploy in the bizarre history of air piracy, an inconspicuous middle-aged traveler identified on the manifest as "D.B. Cooper" extorted $200,000 from the airline, and apparently foiled any plan of capture by parachuting to safety over southwest Washington State...
...shake off your lethargy," Kennedy said, imploring young voters to "take a path (voting) that may seem prosaic, but is nevertheless the path to power and progress...
...benefit of the large percentage of elderly riders in the Tampa-St. Petersburg area. Municipal airports in Dallas, San Francisco and Los Angeles have built moving sidewalks -conveyor belts that transport passengers to loading areas; in Los Angeles, for example, they save about 420 ft. of walking. Prosaic buses haul passengers from terminal to aircraft at Atlanta and Honolulu airports, among others. The Hawaiian version consists of pint-sized wiki wiki (hurry hurry) vehicles that play taped Hawaiian music and broadcast advice on where to rent cars and find free pineapple juice...