Word: strains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Strain...
...Hubbard and James Baldwin come to Harvard and relate superbly both as artists and Black men. Others feel no compulsion to address the question of race at all, moving through the maze of intense Harvard experiences, positive and negative, as independent entities. Either attitude has its advantages, but both strain under one unavoidable fact: Harvard doesn't especially give a damn...
...Sandy Beach parade along an elevated runway inside a long oval bar with the fluid stride of Miss Americas--they just tend to jut their pelvises a little farther forward. Their bodies are shivered by strobe lighting and their images are tossed between parallel mirrors, but the men rarely strain their necks to watch these dancers. Their nakedness is monotonous and distant. There are other women roving the floor who will buy a customer a drink and smooth the wrinkles in his shirt for $6.00, and several men seem to be waiting suspensefully for the one in the white gown...
...TWIN THEMES of isolation and imprisonment pervade the work of American women writers, whose art pulses with the strain of creating in a culture that relentlessly associates creativity with maleness. "The soul selects her own society, then shuts the door," begins one of Emily Dickinson's best-known poems. Dickinson's poetry reflects her unique physical, as well as spiritual, confinement; a life-long recluse, she shut herself up in her father's house and composed taut verses proclaiming the isolation of the human soul...
...shortest route to pleasure no matter how unjust. Or Hamlin might have aimed for "historical accuracy" and had Shylock played, as George C. Scott played him a few years ago, as a contemptible buffoon. He chose for the middle way, and provided a viable, plausible interpretation that does not strain anything to the breaking point...