Word: woe
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...feminism came to mean denigrating motherhood, pursuing selfish goals and wearing a suit. Whereas feminism was hip and fashionable in the '70s, antifeminism became socially acceptable in the '80s. First the fundamentalist right, then the White House -- and ultimately Hollywood, television and many journalists -- held feminism responsible for "every woe besetting women," Faludi writes, "from mental depression to meager savings accounts, from teenage suicides to eating disorders to bad complexions...
Disappointingly, the book does not even fulfill the reader's appetite for lurid details since each woman's tale of woe is told in the third person by Chellis' squeaky clean narration. As a result, the portrayals are bland and devoid of detail. Each woman's personal voice is lost amidst Chellis' smug and patronizing commentary...
Toomey cited his experiences with the city's own economic troubles and the "tales of woe" his constituents relay to him as evidence of the need for an increased role providing human services...
...different from those in Calgary's stunning indoor oval, which is every speed skater's picture of paradise. In Albertville, days of driving rain that left the ice bumpy alternated with sunny ones that left it slushy. World records? Personal bests? This track was about survival, not records, and woe to the skater unable to block out the noise of the TGV supertrain from Lyons rushing by on tracks 600 ft. from the north curve...
...hard to imagine a more appropriate locale than Cambridge, Massachusetts, as the setting for the conglomeration of 90s woe so adroitly depicted in Jonathan Franzen's new novel Strong Motion. Against the backdrop of eccentric Cambridge, Franzen tells the story of a young man's struggle to reconcile his idealism in a corrupt and continually disappointing world, capturing the social ailments of our society in both a humorous and candid light...