Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...convenient to both parties," particularly since it allows the female to overcome "the far more powerful conditioning she has received toward sexual inhibition.") The great myths of mankind, as interpreted by anthropologists, reinforce the themes of feminine subordination. Millett cites the legend of Pandora's box and the biblical tale of Adam's Fall, and says that both "these concepts of feminine evil have passed through a final literary phase to become highly influential ethical justifications of things as they are." Part of that literary phase, she says, is the male chauvinism that runs through the writings of authors like...
...publishing "antinational propaganda." It is best to keep criticism obscure, as in the case of Eighteen Texts, a book recently published in Athens. Though Greece is not specifically mentioned, it is plainly the subject. The opening contribution, a poem by Nobel Prizewinner George Seferis, recounts an old Cypriot tale in which a bunch of cats (read colonels) wipe out an invasion of snakes (read Communists), only to wind up poisoned by snake venom. A second story alludes to a remark of Premier Papadopoulos that contemporary Greece is like a patient in a plaster cast, which will be removed only when...
...young was based not on impulse but on his long experience with his six sons, aged eight to 28. Jack Hickel, 19, a biology student at the University of San Francisco, defines his relationship with his parents as "super-good." Hickel never indulged in what Jack calls "fairy tale" moralizing. When Jack sampled the "weekend hippie" scene in Haight-Ashbury several years ago, Hickel was troubled but not surprised to learn that the sampling included marijuana. He merely asked his son what it felt like, then suggested that it would be "foolish to take chances with the law and health...
...screen door wrirrraangs at the post office-general store run by Miss Latha Bourne in Stay More, a community of 113 souls deep in the Ozark Mountains. It also opens on a tall tale that is a love story as well, told by a young man who is reconstructing the events of a summer he once spent totally in Latha's thrall. He was five years old at the time...
...Mythology. It is a key that the reader should turn for himself. Although interpretations may vary, it seems clear that Blum's puzzling tale has some roots in the basic myths of the twin culture heroes who father new tribes, cities and even heavenly bodies. Romulus and Remus, or Castor and Pollux come first to mind. But in the case of Bear and Black Bear, Blum's biblical symbolism suggests Esau and Jacob. To this are added a dash of psychedelics and some excellent literary effects. In the early pages, the prose has a deadly metallic precision. When...