Word: vanquished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Disdain for Mere Man. This quality of savage purpose was etched to its satiric extreme in Myra Breckinridge. Gore Vidal's travesty dealt with a sex change?the conversion of Myron to Myra?and with America's compulsive devotion to movies. It was Myra's unholy quest to vanquish man; the locus of her attack was the wellspring of his contemporary myths, Hollywood. Clad principally in feminine indestructibility, she sought to blind men with her beauty, determinedly "unmanning them in the way that King Kong was reduced to a mere simian whimper by beauteous Fay Wray, whom I resemble left...
Obviously, a man who can vanquish cancer is indestructible. Still, even if he was immortal, he wasn't getting any younger. There was catching up to do. At a time when other men start to think about bifocals and social security, Wayne began to learn his lines for The Sons of Katie Elder, a typically nuance-free Wayne western about four lusty, brawling brothers. But that was just for loot. Now that he was back on his feet, some things were griping him. The moral backslide, for one. He stumped for his friends Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. "I said...
...Aztec pyramid) and takes off to bring somebody-anybody-to help. He ends up in Liverpool and finds the Beatles. After a voyage through some indeterminate fantasy land of Outer Space or Sea Bottom, inhabited by terrors, demons and malevolent monsters, they make it back to Pepperland and vanquish the Meanies with Beatlemusic and LOVE...
...understand that lesson. The most divisive issues of the day?the baffling war in Viet Nam, the Negro's bitter contest for his rights?take much of their heat from the national refusal to entertain the mere possibility of defeat. Why can't the world's mightiest military power vanquish a tiny and underdeveloped Asian state? Why does it suffer a humiliating act of piracy by the North Koreans? Why don't the cops just go in there and re-establish law and order...
Although Seraphina is about to be boiled in molten wax in this week's com ic strip, any faithful reader of Jeune Afrique (Young Africa) can be confident that she will escape and vanquish her enemies to the applause of all the neutralist nations of the "third world...