Word: enrichment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...writers of the Sourcebook fairly glory in their womanhood, in their appreciation of feminism as a force "to enrich and diversify human life." Concomitant with this appreciation is a healthy distrust of those who would deny women their proper place in any scheme for societal and cultural revolution. And it is in this context that Marxist feminists and would-be "liberated" men come in for such a rough time. The problem with Marxists, says the Sourcebook, is that they fail to locate the problem of sexism where it belongs--in the oppression of women, as a class...
WESTERNERS criticize the Bengali government beauracracy for its slowness, ineptitude, and inefficiency; in themselves, these criticisms are proof Westerners do not understand Bangladesh's government. The point of the government, as has been the point of government in South Asia for at least a thousand years, is to enrich government officials and strengthen the power of the upper castes over the lower, and at this the government is remarkably adroit, efficient, and swift. There are very few construction projects, for example, from which officials fail to achieve their target of bribes, very few internal disturbances from which the peasants gain...
There is some perversity in using language to desiccate, rather than to enrich, and some danger. The risk Kosinski takes is like the risk Beckett and Barth took; the barrenness of his words and of his landscapes threaten to consume the whole. A Literature of Desolation that engenders only desolate novels is, to say the least, self-defeating...
...alumni colleges have only one stated goal: to offer alumni a chance to continue their education after they graduate. Shultz says he feels it is especially important for the middle-aged alumni who want to enrich their lives, who feel they're missing something in mid-career. "There are tremendously exciting possibilities in continuing education, and we've just cracked the surface," he says. Downey's attitude is similar. "I'm really excited by the adult capacity to grow, to learn, to develop," she says. If attendance is any indication, the alumni themselves seem to share in this excitement, returning...
...volunteering, but says she hopes this is changing: "There are some exciting indications now that shorter work periods without loss of pay, and increased activism among all classes, will bring these long-missed men and women into community activities on a volunteer basis. I hope so. It would greatly enrich the volunteer scene, other volunteers and their clients...