Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...make the past a frequent companion. Every so often the magazine does a cover story on a figure of both historical significance and current concern: Adam Smith (the future of capitalism, 1975), Thomas Jefferson (the nation's Bicentennial, 1975) and, this week, the American past. Our subject, on the eve of Independence Day, is history itself, specifically the growing reappraisal by historians and ordinary citizens alike of the civics-book homilies that once passed for U.S. history...
...pressure from Cambridge's state legislature delegation and from local officials apparently revived the bill, which will subject the University to city zoning codes and give Cambridge more leverage in its dealings with Harvard...
...passed, the bill would subject Harvard to all Cambridge zoning regulations for the first time in history. Every other college and university in the city falls under municipal zoning, but Harvard, thanks to an antiquated passage in the state constitution, has remained protected...
...China Men, heirs to an ancient tradition of oppressing women. A scene early in the book sets Kingston off on her imaginative quest. As a young girl, the author watches her father at work in his laundry in Stockton, Calif. Trained as a scholar in China, he is subject to black moods and bitterness over his low estate. His angriest curses vilify women's bodies. The girl both understands and is bewildered. She addresses him in memory: "We knew that it was to feed us you had to endure demons and physical labor." But she adds: "What I want...
...conditions there firsthand before he takes over as warden. Since I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang almost half a century ago, moviegoers have periodically been made painfully aware of how rotten life can be on a Southern prison farm. Director Rosenberg had a good go at the subject in Cool Hand Luke (1967). But never has the food looked so disgusting, or the living conditions so vile, as they are shown here. Nor have the reprisals and punishments been more brutally demonstrated. Also, the fact that the Brubaker character is modeled after Thomas Murton, an academic penologist...