Word: worthlessness
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...boring as straight people--they start businesses with lovers and end up in Hollywood, Florida, with dogs and doubleknit slacks and I have no desire to write about them... But the failures--that tiny subspecies of homosexuals, the doomed queen... That fascinates me! The fags who consider themselves worthless because they are queer...
Most of the summer was not nearly that interesting, however. Most of my time was spent picking fruit to the ever-so-slow ticking of my watch. The peasant lifestyle was very different from anything found in America, and especially different from life at Harvard. Intellectualism was worthless in Moras En Valloire--nothing counted except how quickly a person could pick the peaches. It was a hard life, one in which a person spent most of his waking hours working, with few diversions and only the simplest of pleasures...
...knight in shining armor must clean up after his horse." Widowed nine years ago at 47, she went back to college "to get another piece of paper." At 50, she was told she was unemployable. "They said I should go to the welfare office, that my new degree was worthless because of lack of recent work experience...
...This is a generation of women on whom the rules have been changed," says Stewart. "When they find that the things they have treasured all their lives, helping their husbands achieve and raising children, are considered worthless, they suffer a terrible identity crisis." The first step toward economic self-sufficiency is to rebuild devastated selfesteem. "We have to sell the woman both to herself and to the community," says Sommers...
...more volatile subject, Sheed concludes: "At present, most reviews of books by blacks are critically worthless. White reviewers tend to babble ingratiatingly, as if they'd just received a death threat...