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...Hospital after a mild heart attack; Italian Foreign Minister and U.N. General Assembly President Amintore Fanfani, 57, in Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital after he ruptured a quadriceps tendon in his right leg in a spill outside a friend's house; France's gossiping Existentialist Simonede Beauvoir, 57, fetched home by Old Comrade Jean-Paul Sartre to recover in Paris from badly bruised legs and chest after her car collided with a truck in Burgundy...
There is nothing really new about the Friedan argument except its language. Her book, in fact, is merely one more pronunciamento of the 20th century feminist movement. It owes a consider able debt to that formidable French non-housekeeper, Simone de Beauvoir, who in The Second Sex insisted that any woman who submits to housework betrays "a kind of madness bordering on perversion...
Certainly one of the nicest things about feminism, and especially Simone de Beauvoir's feminism, is that it is a marvelously amusing subject to discuss. Not only does everyone have an opinion; everyone is an expert. Let us tune in, then, on a non-directed panel discussion in which Simone de Beauvoir is key speaker...
While the critics lash away (and rightly so) at Simone de Beauvoir's new book, Force of Circumstance, let us instead consider her indisputably great accomplishments. The Second Sex, de Beauvoir's feminist manifesto (first published in 1949), will be remembered with love by millions of people when that longwinded autobiography is just a history graduate student's optional reading...
...Graham Blaine: My dear Miss de Beauvoir, even in the modern world there are certain constants of human behavior. It is quite well known that women are by nature more jealous than men, more demanding of love and affection, more monogamous...