Word: goddess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...purist. For one thing, the language, when it's not merely rhetorical, is often distressingly colloquial, as in this comment on comic books: "The more drecky the material, the more blatant the sexism, the more overt the misogyny." Feminist expressions (language shapes consciousness and all that) abound, expressions like "Goddess knows" which ring a bit untrue, or the substitution of "MDeities" for doctors. The difficulties of constructing a graceful feminist language are certainly formidable, but fortunately the Sourcebook's analysis are sufficiently lucid to compensate for their lack of linguistic elegance...
...make a "goddess" out of this girl? Is it because she is rich? If she deserves to be punished, punish her; don't feed...
...Apropos of your most recent report on Fanne Foxe [Sept. 22], I must say the goddess of Mr. Mills grinds slowly and exceeding fine...
...Times finally heard that Nikki Giovanni is a star and it found space for her in the Op-Ed page; Giovanni was ready for The Times with a long poem called "Ego Tripping (there may be a reason why)." The poem seems to invoke the voice of an African goddess who croons a mixture of nursery rhymes, Egyptian myth, parables of the Biblical parables (such as the tale of noah who built new/-ark), and a snatch of the Temptations singing "Psychedelic Shack." All these grandiose items jostle each other benignly without ever coalescing into a meaningful idea...
...recognized the futility of the war, even before the atomic bombs dropped in 1945. After the nuclear ultimatum, he counseled his people to "bear the unbearable" (surrender, that is). At the Allies' request, he publicly disowned the official myth that he was the divine descendant of the sun goddess Amaterasu, and he did not murmur when the conquerors stripped him of his $100 million fortune. When his people struggled against starvation early in the Occupation, he gave away American canned goods to old retainers and subsisted on brown rice and sweet potatoes...