Word: yourselfer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Great Divider. A new boom is under way. It started in the counterculture, where the inexpensive ingredients and do-it-yourself potential had great appeal. But macramé has been co-opted, and is being taught in churches and schools all over the country. An Irvine, Calif., country club has...
Put yourself in their position. What can you demand? Not anything that requires large amounts of money, because there's nobody available to command large amounts of money. You cannot call a legislature into session to change the budget because some cons have some hostages in a building. Demands have...
But Summer of '42 is still a contrived memory, unblemished by the time that supposedly separates the film's characters from ourselves. It demands a set response, rather than triggering individual reactions. It is too large, too pat. For the past is nothing if not fragmentary and one's own...
Some men who attend liberation meetings seem motivated more by fear of newly militant women than by conscience. "Man it's heavy," mourns one male liberationist. "Like you gotta build a whole new way of seeing her and yourself. You have to fight so you don't slip...
"God damn and blast my soul!" the Pre-Raphaelite painter Ford Madox Brown used to warn his grandson. "I will turn you straight out of my house if you go in for any kind of commercial life." But he added: "Beggar yourself rather than refuse assistance to anyone whose genius...