56. An unattractive feature of this memoir is the casually dismissive, often downright ________ , comments the author makes about almost all of her former colleagues.
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57. Anthropologists traditionally argue that the male-female division of labor in hunter-gatherer societies arose because it ________ the nuclear family's joint interests and thereby represented a sound, ________ strategy.6 {" s/ y( _' P- [; Y N0 r* f6 f
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(D) restricted … provisional
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58. Are we to turn into spineless ________ , afraid to take a ________ stand, unable to answer a question without pussyfooting?
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(C) criminals ... defiant
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0 Q/ ^7 @! X( Z- o 59. As Reginald Machell's lavishly carved throne clearly illustrates, California craftsmen were not afraid of ________ .
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60. As a product of the Soviet literary establishment, the author was brave enough to ________ the hand that fed him, but not heroic enough to bite it.
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