Word: tone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...maternal (or paternal) instincts. Throughout the book. Greer cites numerous anthropological, sociological, and psychological studies: her claims, if somewhat outrageous, are almost always based on well-documented research. But in a section on the importance of fertility, Greer's biases begin to manifest themselves in her less-than-objective tone. Her well-supported argument occasionally loses ground in spurts of emotionalism and-over-statement...
...spends too much space describing the humiliating postures women must assume under the hands--and instruments--of insensitive male gynecologists. Most of what she says is impossible to prove, but many readers may bristle at her militant tone. One highlight of this chapter is her psychoanalysis of the fertility doctors motivations for helping sterile women...
More than content, however. Greer's language and tone detract from Sex and Destiny. Germaine Greer is an intelligence and powerful writer who can not seem to stay detached enough to avoid occasional over emotionalizing and a holier than thou tone. All told, however, these lapses do not dominate the work: Sex and Destiny remains a powerful treatise, certain to provoke a number of equally impassioned responses...
However accurate a scenario like this may be, the tone merely detracts from an otherwise sensible and perceptive view of the problems of contraceptives. An author and thinker like Greer does not need to grab our attention with passages like this one. At times, one wishes she were more cold and clinical, because the facts and analyses can generally stand on their...
...Arts"-painting, sculpture and their connections to other media, to their own history, to architecture, and so on. Almost anything can be gathered under such an umbrella, and nearly everything has been, from plaster Apollos to graffiti, from marble to flickering television sets. The prevailing tone is of fatigue and mannerism. Everyone complains that the Biennale, like art itself, is in decline; such complaints are a necessary part of the ritual of visiting it. But this year in particular the visitor feels like a tourist in a glass-bottomed boat, gliding over a dying reef: here a brilliant polyp, there...