Word: washing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like, not what they really are," Tyree said. (Sharon Shelton, in charge of this program, had her picture appear recently in the Cambridge Chronicle. To the amazement of Saundra Graham and others, she was listed as a "black community leader.") "If you explain to someone enough good reasons to wash, then they'll wash. I'm not going to say that I know what's good for girls all the time--I guess I'm a male chauvinist pig from way back. But I think that money is in the wrong place. That kid from Riverside who died last summer...
...most painful waiting was done by those 1,300 families whose men are not on the lists, who are still missing in action. In Puyallup, Wash., Mrs. Emma Hagerman remains convinced that her husband, Air Force Colonel Robert Hagerman, is alive somewhere in Indochina, even though he has been missing for nearly six years. "One day I was feeling depressed," she said last week, "and I remembered that if you want a message, you should open the Bible and put your ringer on a verse." She opened the book to Jeremiah, which she had never read before. The text said...
...Revolution. Myth invades even the writing of the mythologist. The critic must have someplace to stand--for Barthes the someplace is a Marxism which casts the functioning of bourgeois myth into high relief--but that standpoint is itself necessarily a myth, which history and self-criticism will wash away...
...funeral in and around Johnson City, Texas, but no hint of frenzy. Death is a part of life there. The people always gather when one of their own dies, drawn together by the profound humanness that gives these tiny clusters the strength to cling, generation after generation, in the wash of the Great Plains...
Kummer is not alone in his positive view. For many women, according to Psychiatrist Nadelson, the experience "can produce psychological growth." Feminist Moore concurs: "For the woman who has let her life wash over her, who has let her life be directed by forces outside of herself, to make a decision to take charge of her life can be an extremely liberating, positive experience. For the first time in her life, she is the master of her destiny...