Word: themes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Instead of a trumpet, a harp weakens "Linda Paloma." Arthurt Gerst, the Liberace of the harp, turns this song into an appropriate theme for "The Edge of Night." Browne's voice also falters on this track, when he sings about his "Mexican dove." Usually, his vocals are sincere if methodical; he's more a hoe tilling the soil than a barreling steamroller. But his range is severely limited, and it shows here as his voice cracks reaching for a high note. Still, Browne's decision to stray his Southern California roots to try a Mexican ballad demonstrates a willingness...
...econd half of Daedalus leaves the theme of adulthood and leaps into the future of the U.S. in general and public policy in specific. Overall the writing falls down, but the essays pick up in substance. Few articles could be more topical or crucial to the discussion of present day issues than Glazer's "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity--and Ethnicity." The article serves as a vehicle for Glazer's oft-propounded thesis that liberal policy-makers who insist that differences between races result only from discrimination will eventually polarize the nation at the expense of fraternity. He criticizes those who blast...
...AUTUMN of the Patriarch, the theme is once again solitude, this time that of the dictator of a mythical Latin American nation, who simply will not die: he measures his age by the appearances of Haley's Comet. In fact, he is so reclusive, old and omnipotent that the stages of his decline loom like the death...
...where do you go, once you have singled out motherhood as an issue? In Of Woman Born: Motherhood as an Experience and Institution. Adrienne Rich takes up this regularly recurring theme of feminist literature. Women's biological attributes, she argues, have forced them to bear the responsibility for continuing the species; but the division of labor in the household between the working father and the nurturing mother has set the foundation for an inflexible social institution, including much more than bearing children. Since the first stirrings of the patriarchal system, she says, women have been valued only by the number...
...refusal to accept the possibility that men might, change their attitudes to the patriarchal system forms the basis of another theme running through Of Woman Born. For what seems like years, Rich and Susan Sontag have waged an ongoing battle in the pages of the New York Review of Books on the relationship between marxist theory and feminism. According to Rich, the fact that patriarchy existed prior to capitalism proves conclusively that it will continue long after capitalism falls. The real "alienated labor," she suggests, is the labor of the birth process, and "the repossession by women of our bodies...