Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anne de Saint Phalle's critique of dorm life from a strictly social and psychological point of view is the best I have ever seen on this subject...
...relishes the secular. He regards any meal as incomplete without a good wine. Would St. Paul, Calvin or Luther, he asks, have opened "bottles of Welch's Grape Juice in the sacristy before a service?" He dismisses synthetic foods as almost blasphemous and his gorge rises on the subject of dieting: "When you fast, fast; when you feast, feast." Neither prim nor prudish, he considers women, like pastries, a special delight: "A woman is like an aging strudel-not always crisp on the outside, but always good on the inside...
...however, when approached directly, maintains that all she cares about is camels. "There's as much possibility for fresh invention in making a camel as in making a human figure," she says. Come to think of it, since nobody else has done much using the camel as a subject, there is probably more...
Feuer goes much too far, and that is a pity, for he has what his subject badly needs: scholarship. But he supplies too much of what it distinctly doesn't need: partisanship. As an angry father figure stuck with an angry-son explanation of history, he becomes in the end a victim of those excesses he describes. What makes Feuer's book ap pealing, especially to that group which may be loosely referred to as "grownup," is its easy (too easy) explanation of current woes and rages that many Americans find painful and inexplicable. What makes it potentially...
...truth, Lear was beset by specific afflictions that would have excused bitterness, something he never showed. He was an epileptic subject to almost daily seizures, a syphilitic and a homosexual. The Victorian world provided no palliative drugs to mitigate his diseases. Homosexuality had not yet achieved the modern status as a Third Sex International. It was still the love that dared not speak its name. A succession of handsome, brilliant boys haunted his imagination and became recipients of the best of his wonderfully funny letters; those who stirred his hopeless love were unaware of the nature of his affection (only...