Word: virtuousic
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...like the Ayatullah kick us around and imprison our people. The theme of manhood ran deeply through the campaign. The U.S. had lost the long war in Viet Nam; the nation seemed smaller and diminished in the world: unmanned. Reagan restored a sense of what was good, what was virtuous, about being a man. A New York Times/CBS News poll showed that an astonishing 78% of American men view Reagan as a strong leader...
...course, little in Shakespeare is that simple-mindedly didactic, and many productions of Taming play up the irony of Kate's position, treating her surrender as a victory of sarcasm or love or something else. But director of this play as an unbridled assault of headstrong machismo against virtuous female independence, and tries "to image a Katherina who is truly made submissive, who really relinquishes her will, who is just as broken as nay hunting falcon or busted bronce...
Cathy goes on. "I'm not too clear about the other two. I think one was poor and virtuous and the other one was very smart, or some combination like that...
Megan laughs, "Well, I'm poor and you're virtuous, and God knows both of us are smart, so I guess it'll work out all right...
...clear that hers is in truth a cri de coeur for the unassuageable pain of growing old before she has even grown up. If this is the heartland, it is as seen by Freud: the husband lusts after the girl and fantasizes about her as the virtuous virgin that his wife was not; the wife acts kittenish even with the milkman; the girl selects lovers, then discards them. Middle age is portrayed as a time of aching sexual frustration, made more acute by the close-at-hand vision of youth. Some of Inge's kitchen-sink exposition seems dated...