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Claiborne investigates and reports on expressions like sow one's wild oats , about which he tells us little or nothing: the modern Latinate designation Avena fatua came too many centuries after the original expression to have any relevance to it, so why bring up the information that fatua is Latin for `foolish': it was also Latin for `wild,' which might be more to the point.
Claiborne persevered, however, learned French, changed the laws, and brought his carping constituents into the American fold as citizens of the new State of Louisiana, even though it was very much unlike any other US state.
Three decades after the reawakening of feminism, no field of scholarship remains unexamined by feminist analysis, a process rhetorician Gay D. Claiborne has defined as an effort to deconstruct the patterns of thinking that lead to a world-view of reality as consisting of oppositional, hierarchically-ordered pairs of things.
(Gay D. Claiborne, pp. 143--44, Japanese and American Rhetoric: A Contrastive Study , International Scholars Publications, 1993.)
In any event, it is hard to discern, from the arch style affected in an attempt to make dull facts interesting, just what is the origin of sow one's wild oats . In many entries, Claiborne labors the obvious, offering little or nothing we do not already know, could easily imagine, or for which the author offers no explanation.