Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...literature is a universal phenomenon. To be literature, any piece of work must fit certain well-defined canons by which it is recognizable. The literary arts present particular difficulties because their subject matter is about man, and no matter how radical one becomes one must always return back to universality and to man. Thus I must stick with man and his universality. At once, therefore, I recognize Afro-American literature to be universal in that it abides by the universal laws of literature and finds itself structured within the same general context of universal literature in that there...
...disturbed at the headline on the Caryn Curry profile, "Basketball Star 'Plays Like a Man'". This headline does nothing but reinforce the double standard and sexism that prevails on the subject of women's sports. When someone tells a woman athlete, like Caryn, that she does her sport like a man, it is taken as a compliment not because women are trying to emulate men but because playing like a man is synonymous with playing well. The way our society exists today, to be a good female athlete is to deny the mold that has encompassed women for years...
Jimmy Carter's re-election prospects have become a much discussed topic in the nation lately. When the subject came up at TIME'S Board of Economists meeting, the response could hardly have encouraged Carter partisans. All seven members present gave the President a less than 50-50 chance of reelection...
...Real Life. Comic Albert Brooks' first feature is not as dark as Interiors, but neither is it designed as a hoot. What Brooks has wrought is a scrupulously honest satire: a film that sacrifices compulsive jokiness in the effort to reveal the nasty truth about its subject, TV's slice-of-life documentaries. Real Life is funny when it wants to be and stubbornly thoughtful the rest of the time. By refusing to pander to the crowd, Brooks puts a healthy distance between himself and such recent comics turned film makers as Marty Feldman, Gene Wilder, and Cheech...
Many of her letters dealt with her unwavering Catholic faith, and on this subject she did not joke. She read theology voraciously, not to test her own belief but to judge the theologians...