Word: selfing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...puritans are not got rid of that easily. Miss Drabble has composed her dazzling and anguished novel as a "schizoid third-person dialogue," with alternating sections written as "I" and as "she." "She" is mostly the girl who dares to. "I" is Freud's good old superego, self-recriminating, doing society's work even when society itself has lost its enthusiasm to play enforcer. It is the "I" that has the last word. The closing sentence of the novel reads significantly: "I prefer to suffer, I think...
...Shakespeare, Madam, is obscene, and thank God, we are sufficiently advanced to have found it out!" Thus spake the pure-the ever so pure-voice of the born bowdlerizer. Self-congratulatory, combining limitless prudery with limitless zeal, the expurgator haunted the live authors of the 19th century, and the dead authors of every century previous. Without respect for reputation, he labored-blue stockings on his feet, blue pencil in his hand-to save the reading public from corruption and to save masterpieces (including the Bible) from themselves...
John Ballantyne happens to be the most self-confident Crimson football player this year. "I mean what else do you have going for you when you're as small as I am?" John said...
Nevertheless, the success of the Cuban effort is far from certain. Cuba is short of trained managers, and in some factories has relied on worker self-supervision. In many of these factories worker productivity has been falling. "Once you take the bosses off people's backs." says one Harvard economist just returned from Cuba. "you don't have people doing the onerous tasks they have to do." And while there is little doubt that masses of students and intellectuals have been doing volunteer work in the cane fields, few observers can tell whether they are there because they want...
Ballantyne (5' 9" . 165 Ibs.) is a starting halfback on the Crimson squad this season and potentially the most explosive weapon in the Crimson backfield. Along with his self-confidence, John has a knack for finding small gaps in the defense and darting through them for sizeable gains. While playing for Harvard. John has averaged a little over six yards a carry...