Word: oppression
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those who arrest, beat, fire and ostracize gay people are shock troops defending male supremacy. They oppress gay people in order to enforce traditional sex roles--to keep women emotionally and sexually dependent upon men, and to keep men competitive and hostile toward each other. For the people who rule this country, defending traditional sex roles is not joking matter. Male-defined sex roles keep women down within the family and divide workers against each other--conditions which weaken the ability of the working class to control its own destiny. Women's resistance to sexism, especially the post-1965 feminist...
Cambridge police arrest Martin L. Kilson, professor of Government, for loitering in front of the 24 Restaurant, and Bok lays off all blacks at Harvard in retaliation. Ewart Guinier '33, former chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department, charges that Bok was "just using it as an excuse to oppress black people at Harvard and around the world." "I don't need an excuse," Bok replies...
Sometimes violence extendes beyond the territory we allot to it. A bombing of a munitions factory in an American city or a murder on Brattle street are considered abnormal. The privileged male, the educated male should be able to oppress subtly--to financially benefit from cheap labor without ever having to smell the sweat, to be certain that the women are under control and safely at home without ever having to say a word about it. Only it is not part of the plan that the women of one's own neighborhood are killed. That is dominance going beyond...
Liberation was no small feat for the revolutionary African Party for the Independence of Guinea and the Cape Verde Islands, which mobilized opposition to Portuguese domination of the nation's blacks. The PAIGC freed Guinea-Bissau from the yoke of four centuries of Portuguese colonialism that continues to oppress Mozambique and Angola...
Citizen Kane. Orsen Welles, Joseph Cotton, Agnes Moorehead. Maybe the great American movie. Welles plays a tycoon, modelled after William Randolph Hearst, whose spiralling climb to wealth and power is paralleled by his decline into emotional paralysis. This takes shape cinematically in ever deeper focus shots that oppress Welles ever smaller, ever less impotent and more isolated within the frame. Don't waste your time wondering about Rosebud (it is the name of his sled. Lost innocence, get it. Right, the only woman he ever loved was his mother) Orson Welles...