Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This task was left for an editor, Edward C. Aswell of Harper and Brothers, who published Wolfe's last novel, You Can't Go Home Again (as well as his penultimate novel, The Web and The Rock) after his death at the age of 38. It contained pieces of social criticism, which Aswell gathered together and heavily edited, and it touched on such subjects as economic depression, social decadence and fascism...
Despite Hooper's protest that a feminist Women's Studies rises above propaganda and politicking, she herself tells us. "The aim of Women's Studies is to initiate controversy and change, forcing the reexamination of constraining social structures." I have considerable misgivings about department whose goal is "to initiate change," and whose reading list has the stamp of approval of the N.O.W...
...agenda unquestioned by the "new questions." What is the natural basis of conventional inequalities between men and women? Miss Hooper knows the answer is none. I'm not so smart. I just don't know that sex roles are simply Evil and wholly the result of some malevolent, oppressive "social structure." Questions that challenge Miss Hooper's Gospel become unexaminable when an entire concentration devotes itself to a mission. Preaching replaces teaching. And the priests are infallible...
...teenager with a penchant for trouble. Effectively orphaned by the breakup of her parents' marriage, the girl proves to be too much for either of her mother's sisters, Aunt Olga and Aunt Pauline, to control. Nothing seems to register with the child, not Olga's antique collecting and social climbing, not Pauline's furious campaigning for black civil rights and social progress. When Pauline discovers Hillela in bed with her son Sasha, the welcome at the last possible adoptive home wears out. Before long, Hillela quits school and is on her own, drifting somewhere in Johannesburg. Eventually she takes...
...reduce the incentive for chiseling by cutting the maximum tax rate from 50% to an eventual 28%. But tax experts doubt that the shelter game is over. Says John McAtee, a securities lawyer with Davis Polk & Wardwell: "The Government will continue to create new loopholes to accomplish economic and social goals." Smooth-talking operators will continue to tempt wealthy investors with creative -- and not always legitimate -- ways to use those loopholes...