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If the original Tarzan celebrated the Anglo-Saxon male proving his superiority over Nature red in tooth and claw, Disney's version embodies the ideology that vilifies the "white male" and idealizes the feminine (human and ape) and the wilderness imagined by customers of The Nature Store.
The French treasures are also somewhat mutilated, queue [XXII,1] is feminine not masculine: tirer le diable par la queue; appuyer sur le champignon means to step on the gas, le champignon being the slang term for accelerator; in vivre comme un coq en pâte there is no acute accent on the e; it is une [not un ] autre paire de manches that the French use for something that is entirely different.
True, in sophisticated Spanish a goldfish can be called specifically a carpa dorada , which is feminine, but such a term seemed unlikely to occur in the rustic Spanish of New Mexico.
Especially interesting are the descriptors that are taken over from very different semantic domains, such as words that describe personality and character: aggressive, charming, diffident, honest, feminine, masculine . How can these descriptions be meaningful?
Back in the 1950s, twin colossi sat astride the Hudson, figuratively glowering at each other: Betty Friedan in Grandview on the West Bank, writing The Feminine Mystique , and John Cheever in Scarborough on the East Bank, writing the Wapshot books and the short stories.
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