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...raise her children while performing heavy work in the fields and other traditionally male tasks. But because the Black man "was not allowed to do any of the things it was said at the time men were supposed to do" and the Black woman merely filled a void, she "has been punished for doing what any other woman would have done in a crisis by being labeled a superwoman and a freak...
...abstraction and generality not unlike the platonic world of forms. The landscape of Texas, with its sparse vegetation and flat expanses of land, provided a suitable environment for such investigation. There Hejduk saw objects as having a "clarity and remoteness." Texas, for him, "gave meaning to isolated objects and void spaces...
...chemicals. Fully 50% of all Americans depend on ground rather than surface water for their drinking supply. Water that may have fallen to earth as long as a century ago has percolated slowly down through soil and porous rock to collect in vast underground aquifers that were virtually void of chemical and bacteriological impurities. Now substances, mostly petrochemicals thought to have been harmlessly disposed of years ago, are beginning to show up even in the deeper U.S. wells. This contamination will grow as those forgotten chemicals of the past steadily reach more of the underground reservoirs from which Americans will...
DESPITE A RELENTLESSLY non-judgmental style (Broder seems to like a Marxist judge in Detroit and an Indiana housewife turned "right-to-life" activist equally), the author does manage to capture the political spirit of a generation. Acutely conscious of the current void in leadership and new ideas, they seem to be reaching out for new solutions-and, of course, new ways to get elected. Broder announces proudly his confidence in their ability to do so, though the 500 pages contain precious little in the way of new political thinking. At least, Broder concludes, "they have a crack at turning...
...series of concessions that were remarkable for a Communist regime. Now the negotiations had reached a climax over the most crucial demand: a free-trade-union movement outside Communist Party control, a virtual contradiction in terms for a Marxist worker state. On the other side was the yawning void of disorder and a crackdown that, should violence erupt, might bring armed Soviet intervention...