Word: sontag
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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AUTHOR: SUSAN SONTAG...
...survivors strike the same general themes: anxiety, ostracism, lost relationships, trouble at work and difficulty in getting adequate health insurance. The stigma long attached to cancer is only slightly diminished in the age of AIDS. Cancer is to the 20th century what tuberculosis was to the 19th, wrote Susan Sontag in Illness as Metaphor. In the popular imagination, it is not just another disease but the embodiment of evil. In some European countries, it was a common practice for doctors to lie to their cancer patients. Physicians would give the diagnosis to the family but not to the victim...
...Tsongas and the other cancer survivors that reverberates beyond the success or failure of this particular presidential campaign. They share a remarkable optimism, a feeling that their pain-filled battles and close brushes with death have lifted their lives out of the ordinary. If cancer is a metaphor, as Sontag suggests, it is not just a metaphor for death and dying. The message coming from the cancer survivors is that their terrible disease has a capacity to inspire hope as well as dread...
...drawn the media with magnetic force is the author's contempt for modern feminists. Paglia writes with freshness and blithe arrogance, and she does not hesitate to hurl brazen insults. She accuses author Germaine Greer, for example, of becoming "a drone in three years," sated with early success. Susan Sontag is another victim of celebrity. Princeton feminist Diana Fuss's output is "just junk -- appalling...
...Brodkey legend took wing after his debut, First Love and Other Sorrows, was published in 1958. Several critics dubbed him the American Proust. Susan Sontag chimed in: the author was "going for real stakes." Yale professor Harold Bloom burbled, "If he's ever able to solve his publishing problems, he'll be seen as one of the great writers...