Word: 70s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...single girl in New York City making her career, but always Mom and Dad hovered; her independence was somehow merely cute, a phase. In MTM, Mary Richards-Moore's character-gave a humanely plausible version of American women-some American women-in the early and mid-'70s. Not many, of course, are as lovely as Mary or as funny. She was single, independent, pursued her career, was interested in men but not in an obsessive, husband-trapping way. Many women in the audience felt happier with themselves because...
...book, Woman at Home; still others may be attempting more organized measures to help the housewife-as has Jinx Melia with her Martha Movement. But the huge success of Marabel Morgan's books (and the hostility of her critics) makes her a remarkable phenomenon of the mid-'70s...
...ironies of the domestic '70s, in fact, is that the "just a housewife" syndrome, one that the women's movement was partly founded to cure, is still around, and that the broadening of women's choices, which was meant to take the sting out of it, has made it worse. Says Becky Vascellaro, 24, a nurse who was attending a Total Woman seminar in Oklahoma City last month: "I work part time, and I'd like to advance my career, but I put my family first." Others in the class had similar views. Sharon Burton...
Although Radcliffe alumnae frequently lack the economic resources of their Harvard counterparts, the Fund continued to grow even during the recession of the early '70s, Wigglesworth said...
...Young Men, took time between hit plays to pronounce the British monarchy moribund-"A gold filling in a mouth full of decay." But how unpredictable history can be, as kings and queens are the first to know. Osborne has long since been dethroned, while Her Majesty -cresting on '70s nostalgia and God only knows what other divine rights -has never been more popular...