Word: abolitionism
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To separate the Chinese from such dubious delights, Sun Yat-sen and his followers included abolition of footbinding in a portmanteau program of feminine emancipation. Even then, millions of women obdurately refused to unbind-and not only because letting the feet out was almost as painful as binding them up...
Smith and Robertson shared a number of common problems. Prototypes of a bygone era, they faced relatively young, vigorous opponents of modern mien and moderate views. Both incumbents suffered from the erosion of the Byrd machine, which has lost some of its far-right adherents to a new Conservative Party...
In Love's Body, Brown cites a long catalogue of thinkers, from Roheim (Aphrodite: or The Woman with a Penis) to Zimmer (On the Significance of the Indian Tantric Yoga), to make his point that mankind is largely unaware of its own desires, is hostile to life, and is...
Last fall, someone raised the issue of 'rules' again. This time, however, a committee was formed to study the problem. Mrs. Bunting suggested that perhaps sign-out rules should be abolished altogether, then later reported to the legislature that the College Council would be "firmly opposed" to the abolition of...
But the demand for change is growing. Outright abolition of the draft (as suggested in recent years by, of all people, Adlai Stevenson and Barry Goldwater) seems unrealistic. For. as General Hershey likes to put it: "I don't believe we will ever see the end of the draft...