Word: downtrodden
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...American men aren't really patriarchs," she maintained. "They're downtrodden. The only power they have is over their wives." Advising women to convince men that sex roles need to be changed, she said, "the oppressed always gain power from their oppressors...
...setting is the fictitious Lesser Antillean island of Queimada (Portuguese for "burn") in the 1830s. Sir William Walker (Marlon Brando) is an adventurer employed by the British Admiralty to foment a revolution in the Portuguese colony. Walker realizes that the island's blacks are too downtrodden to grasp political rebellion, so he invites them to participate in something they can appreciate: a bank robbery. He baits a strapping porter named José Dolores (Evaristo Marquez) to anger, then decides he is the man to lead the black bandits. With Machiavellian guile he hides the bandits in a jungle village...
...support her, if a woman can't stand staying home with her preschool children at the most crucial stage of their lives, what in the world did she have them for? Who is supposed to run these round-the-clock child-care centers-robots? Men? Other downtrodden women? I raised four children and it was a labor of love, but I have no desire to raise someone else's children. In my opinion, it has nothing to do with Women's Liberation but is just plain passing the buck...
Calvert is seeking a balanced approach. "If you allow military training to get downtrodden and produce only intellectuals, you have officers who can't work with enlisted men. But if you emphasize the production of officers to the exclusion of everything else, you'll end up with fine-looking, dedicated people who are a little vacant...
...jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance." The essence of her view seems to be a sort of humane pessimism about violence. Dreams do not come true, she asserts with Marx. "The rarity of slave rebellions and uprisings among the disinherited and downtrodden is notorious; on the few occasions when they occurred, it was precisely 'mad fury' [in Sartre's phrase] that turned dreams into nightmares for everybody...