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«The male stereotype makes masculinity not just a fact of biology but something that must be proved and re-proved, a continual quest for an ever-receding Holy Grail»
Author: Marc Feigen Fasteau
| About:
Masculinity
| Keywords:
biology, continual, grail, Holy Grail, quest, quest for, recede, recedes, receding, stereotype, stereotyped, stereotyping
«Junk bonds are the Holy Grail for hostile takeovers.»
Author: Roger Miller (Salomon Brothers Inc)
(Business Executive)
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bonds, grail, Holy Grail, hostile, hostile takeover, junk, takeover, takeovers
«While nobles are crying in their nights' chains, the squires sing. The terrible politics of the Grail can never touch them. Song is the magic cape.»
«The America's Cup, yachting is great and garish grail, is a tumorous tureen no handsomer than a camel.»
«The more you chase the Holy Grail of short term performance, the less you get in long-term results»
«The search of the young today is more specific than the ancient search for the Holy Grail. The search of the youth today is for ways and means to make the machine -- and the vast bureaucracy of the corporation state and of government that runs that machine -- the servant of man. . . . That is the revolution that is coming. . . . It could be a revolution in the nature of an explosive political regeneration. It depends on how wise the Establishment is. If, with its stockpile of arms, it resolves to suppress the dissenters, America will face, I fear, an awful ordeal.»
«The theme of the Grail is the bringing of life into what is known as 'the wasteland.' The wasteland is the preliminary theme to which the Grail is the answer. It's the world of people living inauthentic lives - doing what they are supposed to do.»
Author: Joseph Campbell
(Author, Editor, Philosopher, Teacher)
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bringing, grail, inauthentic, known as, preliminary, supposed, theme, wasteland
«You see, he was going for the Holy Grail. The boys all took a flier at the Holy Grail now and then. It was a several years' cruise. They always put in the long absence snooping around, in the most conscientious way, though none of them had any idea where the Holy Grail really was, and I don't think any of them actually expected to find it, or would have known what to do with it if he had run across it.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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cruise, flier, grail, Holy Grail, put across, run across, snoop, The Boys