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...This consciousness, political but transcending politics, lends continuity to the contrasts created by his maturing sensibility, from the early love lyrics to the Gethsemani poems and the Salmos...
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...they are all, by my definition, patriarchal...
...Although our society is in theory a pluralistic culture, it is in factwboth in economic and in symbolic power--an insensitively one-sided culture...
...the flabby rendering of "dulces" by "mellow...
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...If so, I can only observe that a poem once published has some rights held in trust by its readers which are not the poet's to abrogate...
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...Is that movie studio in the same poem as careless of its stockholders' interests as it is of the humanity of the actress...
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...exists by nature, is a part of the 'natural' order of things according to 'scientific' fact and theory, it becomes easier for those in power to continue to exercise dominance because those being dominated are told to believe in their own natural inferiority...
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...B. Explanations of these universalities that do not posit the importance of a male-female physiological dimorphism generating in males a greater "drive" or "need" to attain dominance ----explanations such as those emphasizing the woman's child-related roles, the historical absence of contraception, various economic factors, or the mate's greater physical strength--all are either internally illogical or disprovable with the ethnographic evidence...
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...In Patriarchy I attempt to demonstrate that: A. Every one of the thousands of societies on which we have any evidence is patriarchal (males attain the upper positions in all hierarchies) and male dominant (authority in male-female relationships is associated--by both male and female feelings and by customs and values--with males...
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...Thus Cardenal identifies as a "special circumstance" which differentiates two Jesuit poets "essentially" the fact that one, a Spaniard, has been in Nicaragua while the other, an Englishman, had not: "I say this because a reading of any of his poems is enough to make it clear that for him the presence of the Nicaraguan landscape is always felt as a sense of relief...
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...Bethat as it may, and whatever "greatness" may mean, any poem deserves to have its strength and weakness translated faithfully or else left untranslated...
...Together, they can determine for the worse "what we often" perceive in a poem...
...RICHARD H. RUPP Fathering the Nest New York, N. Y. To the Editors: It is impossible, in the few words permitted in a letter to the editor, to respond satisfactorily to a review as muddied as Jean Elshtain's review of my The Inevitability o[ Patriarchy [Mar...
...Marion K. Sanders' recent article in Harper's spoke with all the nativist power of that magazine's hoary nineteenth-century anti-Catholic traditions...
...I will not recapitulate my critique at this time, but I would add the following: those in positions of dominance and privilege in a society often create an ideology which justifies that dominance...
...Cardenars friend and colleague Jos6 Coronel Urtecho has pointed out that, up to the present, poetry is the only Nicaraguan product of universal value...
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...that meaning would have been carried by "foco" or "reflector" or "proyector" or perhaps "rayo...
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...Transmiten la noticia . . " is in fact a typical introduction for the kind of radio news item one might hear under all that neon, as one might hear "From the wires of United Press International . . ." or "An unconfirmed report on the AP wire . . ." Returning to the first poem, "chorro de luz" is not a conventional way of talking about light...
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...Other examples might be cited: the capricious translation of "no culpar~s" as "You will not punish" instead of "You won't (or can't) blame...
...Christ inquired about is pretty evident (in the interview Cardenal deflected the question because its phrasing permitted him to talk about Pound and so on...
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...why is the culminating simile ("sola como unastronauta frente a la noche espacial") perversely blunted by translating "noche espacial" as "galactic night" instead of something like "the night of space...
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...It is dif~eult to exaggerate the importance of his country and his national identity for this poet, whose very breadth of view and range of competence are sustained by his intense con(Continued on page 366) CORRESPONDENCE: 34tt EDITORIALS: 34'/' WAgR|NGTON REPORT: Two's A Party?: Sisyphus 3411 JEWISH AGENDA, CATHOLIC AGENDA: Michael Novak 351 WARREN BURGER: THE IDEOLOGUE AS REFORMER: /sidore Silver 352 DIVORCE, SI~PAPA, NO: Henry ten Kortenaar 356 HOSPITALS AS NEIGRRORS: Peter Freiberg 3511 VERSE: James Neylon 356...
...D. Social values, socialization, and institutions conform to, and exaggerate the importance of, the behavioral differentiation that is rooted in the physiological dimorphism...
...It is not suitably translated by "beam of light...
...It just may be that human wilIfulness is aggressive enough to produce the disorientation he calls the Fail...
...Or by the Mexican Americans in for life in San Quentin prison...
...The English I just chose, including the clumsy fourth line, asks you to believe that it has recreated the sense, feeling, tone, and intention of the Spanish he did set down...
...From human powers, we should expect nothing less...
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