Word: womanizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WOMAN DESTROYED, by Simone de Beauvoir. In three new novellas, the author of The Second Sex examines with skill a familiar theme: how unfair it is that a sufferer from the degenerative disease, life, should be tormented as well by the affliction of being female...
...exactly this attitude that keeps other great women in the kitchen 100% of the time cooking their gefilte fish. Hooray for Golda! In this day and age especially, as we see ourselves portrayed on TV as empty-headed sex objects, to read of such a woman is a breath of fresh...
Unattached Feet. Churchill's style is less graceful and literary than that of his grandfather, whose own career was similarly launched in journalism. Young Winston writes more directly, though not as well.* He described hunger victims in Biafra: "Their bellies were as large as a pregnant woman's, their limbs like matchsticks, and some had testicles swollen to the size of a large grapefruit." His ear is attuned to the poignant quote, such as the plea of a starving boy who approached a priest and asked: "Father, what is happening to my body?" He lets unadorned facts convey...
...that her art is very complete and at the same time abstract-her work is full of people, animals, flowers, and so on-but very highly transformed, so that only a very sophisticated person can see it." The second has to do with the fact that she is a woman, and "the myth is that when a woman is an artist, she tends to become dehumanized or desexualized, but this has not happened to Helen." The third is the context in which Helen finds herself in the spring...
...students' snickering, Mrs. Timbrook decided to discuss the word in class the very next day. She printed the word on the blackboard for each of her four English classes and asked each what it meant. "I was led to do that by God," Mrs. Timbrook, a deeply religious woman, later recalled. "I didn't know what I was going to do until I walked into the classroom...