Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coal above its present record $15 a ton on long-term contracts and put more upward pressure on utility bills, steel prices and the cost of chemicals. Miller, in his first big bargaining test as U.M.W. president, has no margin for moderation. He runs the risk that his fractious rank and file members will thumb down any agreement he signs...
...After our family, now every family in Korea has a trio," reports Pianist Myung-Whun Chung, 21, smiling at his own youthful hyperbole. With no exaggeration, however, it can be said that the Chungs rank in the forefront of this century's gifted musical families. Each of the seven young Chungs, aged 19 to 33, is a trained musician. Six have won prizes, two were child prodigies, and the three who were once the family's own fireside trio are now solo artists...
...women keep diaries? Listen to a shrink. Better yet listen to two. When asked what a normal person should be able to do, Freud answered "to love and to work." When asked about the relation of woman's mental health to her productive activity, Otto Rank replied that "when the neurotic woman gets cured she becomes a woman. When the neurotic man gets cured he becomes an artist." Many women's diaries were born of the madness of the double standard so preciously summarized in these musings...
Often, the diary proves the only haven for the "person" whose human status is abrogated by her absence of maleness. Denied expression in self-defining work (as in Rank's man-as-artist equation), woman is excluded from participation in half of Freud's definition for normal human existence. She is left in the inert limbo of existence as gender. Although women and men are both possessors of particular sexes and participants in human existence, a woman is defined in terms of her possession of a sex ("woman"), while a man is defined in terms of his human status ("artist...
...starts letters to fellow collectors "Dearly Beerloved." The association distributes a bimonthly newsletter, holds a sudsy annual "can-vention" that was attended this fall by more than 600 enthusiasts, and each year bestows on some beer-busty lass the dubious title of Miss Beer Can. Members range in rank from "brewery worker," with up to 249 cans, to "grand brewmaster" (1,000 or more...