Word: demeaned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the most familiar sources. Author Wolitzer, a Long Island housewife and mother of two, practices realism at its best. Her novel is not a direct imprint of close personal experience. It is an imaginative act that contemplates the world without the lachrymose bitterness that made an anxious Hemingway demean life by calling death an old whore...
...been raped by the city boy when she suddenly appears as she really is: a pathetic pauper, drunk and asking for more, begging for work and selling herself to Hari. To him, the ambiguous transaction is neither prostitution nor charity but a means of keeping her from having to demean herself by doing menial work. Miss India is one of most sensitively handled characters in all neo-realistic cinema, skillfully acted by an amateur, and skillfully directed...
Steven Simon, managing editor of the Observation Post, Saturday denied that the newspaper had intended to offend any religious group. "I took the cartoon as a sexual satire, but if we managed to demean an entire belief, it's not by intent," he said...
...equivalent value of a wide variety of life styles, on relativism and tolerance--or indifference--on calmness and objectivity--or docility and moral resignation--it is a good and necessary thing to remember that there are things which are right and things which are wrong; things which demean and things which uplift; men who are true to themselves, and men who live a lie; acts which are cruel and wrong, and acts which are just and right. "A writer," comments Solzhenitsyn in The First Circle, "is a moral teacher; and this he is and has been, at the risk...
...Ionesco does have something to tell us in his play. The power of his message derives from a universality which O'Horgan's Americanization can only demean. The play is about conformity. At the end of the story only Stanley (Gene Wilder) remains a human being. Everyone else in the town has been inflicted with rhinoceritis, a mysterious disease which changes them into snorting, thick-skinned rhinos. Originally the beasts are an anomaly in the town. But they become more and more appealing to the people. The human beings yearn to become rhinoceroses. The comfort of conformity becomes more attractive...