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Obedience to masculine law is still sanctioned by Islam and symbolized by the veil. Although the future preponderance of the veil is dubious, it still prevails as the norm. Most young women in the cities wear Western clothes, but the vast majority in rural areas retain the veil and traditional caftan. In certain instances the veil seems ridiculous, such as on a long bus ride...
Right after the revolution, the government came out in favor of "lifting the veils," both literally and figuratively. By figuratively, it implied the destruction of the mentality and behavior commonly deemed appropriate to the respectable Islamic woman, and putting women to work, particularly in factories. The outcry was so great that the government soon abandoned this line. Many Muslims interpreted removal of the veil as a profound threat to the spirit of Islam. The government couldn't risk alienating the Muslim population and decided instead to take the opposite stand, supporting the veil as an example of the fact that...
...When the veil of secrecy was finally lifted from Angola after the April 1974 coup d'etat in Portugal, only one of the three liberation movements actually controlled liberated areas within Angola and only one had opted to direct its operations from inside the country--UNITA. It was only after the April coup that MPLA rebuilt its base in Luanda. Having been an urban, primarily intellectual movement ever since its inception in 1956, MPLA had been forced underground by the early '60s, and was only recently able to re-activate its urban cells...
Monk too recites an epic catalog. Earlier, before she's spirited away under the blue veil of "Familiar," "Death's" companion, Monk chortles like a witch...
...Kalypso's loom and the loom of Penelope, roughly corresponding to the grade on a paper and the grade on the final exam, respectively. There are two interpretations of the water: either it is Odysseus's exam, which he will overcome only with the help of Leukothea's magic veil (corresponding to present-day crib notes), or it is a symbol of Odysseus's knowledge, and thus the source of his consternation, "barren...