Word: protoplasm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...footnotes. Some are ironic: "Newly divorced, she had felt virginal again, years younger, truly childlike and American. Beginning again. Always beginning." Some are histrionic: "This is how a woman becomes prehistoric, she thought. Prehistoric. Before all personalized, civilized history. Men make love to her and she is reduced to protoplasm...
...Raikes and Ragamuffins" [Aug. 25]: The Sunday school is dying because the church too often welcomes with gratitude and relief any hunk of protoplasm with a yen to teach who can be scrounged up and stuck in front of a class. Misinformation is innocently, unapologetically, enthusiastically and dogmatically perpetrated. Thoughtful students can hardly be criticized for fleeing this scene...