Word: sexualize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pendrid) Chatworth, a British-born American TV interviewer. He is something of an Anglo-American Alexander Portnoy, but with a crucial difference. Portnoy, draped over a psychiatrist's couch, complained that his lust was repugnant to his stern Hebraic morality and that his morality was repugnant to his sexual nature. Chatworth, slumped in his seat high above the Atlantic, confesses to his tape recorder ("Father Sony") that his English sense of proportion and Catholic asceticism are at loggerheads with his outlandish success. Chatworth vacillates between such statements as "Conquer America-God what a shoddy ambition," and, like David Frost...
...conservative Establishment voice, Christianity Today, extends the worry. "The Evangelical movement," complains its editor, Jim Wallis, "is presented in terms of what Jesus can do for me. It calls many to believe and few to obedience." Yet along with the hot-selling books that deal with psychological fulfillment or sexual liberation (within marriage), the movement is producing such challenging studies as Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger by another New Evangelical, Ronald Sider of Eastern Baptist Seminary. Sider makes a strong biblical case for a life of self-denial and offers concrete examples of Christians who are trying...
Nearly all the Red Army gangsters are products of middle-and upper-middle-class families. Many Germans share the bafflement that George Bernard Shaw is said to have expressed years ago about the English young: "They've got enough food, sexual freedom and indoor toilets. Why the deuce aren't they happy?" West German terrorists are especially difficult to fathom because ideologically they travel light, somewhat like the turn-of-the-century Russian anarchists called bezmo-tivniki (motiveless ones). Says Martin Greiffenhagen, a political scientist at the University of Stuttgart: "Behind the acts of terror stands neither revolutionary...
...sexual revolution is passe. We have gone from Pan to pots. The Great American Love Affair is taking place in the kitchen...
Before the Revolution, women in Cuba were doubly oppressed, according to Figueroa, one of two women in the group and the most vocal of the five. Women in pre-revolutionary Cuba were kept down both because of the social regime and because of their gender. Figueroa said: "Sexual discrimination limited women in society in all aspects-the legal system and the educational system, as well as the mass media, which saw women primarily as a market to increase their capital. Women were taught to occupy themselves with beauty....The whole culture, if we can call this culture, discriminated against them...