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DAVID RIESMAN, Ford Professor of the Social Sciences, is quoted as espousing a "backlash" theory to explain Klemesrud's somewhat shaky observation that women are once again heading for the clothes racks in search of sexy duds. Riesman, in a recent interview with The Crimson, explained his "theory" was formed spontaneously when Klemesrud told him that women were once again becoming sex objects. He referred mainly to one of the more sensitive and critical problems with the women's movement. Primarily, Riesman says that some "women have felt pushed around, made to feel square," by radical feminists who were trying...
...think it is a form of cruel and unusual punishment," Peter Kohl '80, a PBH volunteer said yesterday. "I don't think it will improve things as much as it will cause a backlash of prison response...
...country, even with generous infusions of foreign credit, can hope to achieve the four modernizations simultaneously. Sooner or later, the experts believe, the Peking leadership will have to set some tough priorities, which inevitably means disappointing some claimants to the country's limited resources and risking an angry backlash. Beyond that, Teng and his cohort face a psychological problem in inspiring the masses. Having suffered through years of polemical warfare, many workers have become cynical about the system and are immune to exhortations and slogans. Middle-level officials, on whom Teng counts to translate his policies into action, constitute...
...campaign finance law. Formed by business, labor and a host of other special interest groups, PACs had contributed more than $60 million at the mid-point of the campaign, as compared with spending a total of $23 million in the last presidential election. There were some signs of a backlash against the growing influence of the PACs. Wisconsin Governor-elect Dreyfus singled them out for special obloquy in his rambunctious quasipopulist campaign against the special interests...
...agreeing that the volatile issue of women's ordination ought to be decided by each national church. By taking that position, observers thought, the English Anglicans were foreshadowing approval of the bitterly disputed proposal. The lead had already been taken by Canada, New Zealand and Hong Kong with little backlash. But the U.S. cast a shadow: after a close pro-ordination vote for women in 1976, the church suffered an embarrassing schism when angry conservatives left to form a renegade Anglican Catholic denomination...