Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every woman knows that the truth about motherhood falls somewhere between the recent outpourings from Germaine Greer [BEHAVIOR, April 16] and the canned wisdom of Phyllis Schlafly. What perplexes me is why a woman like Greer, who has experienced almost everything but maternity, salutes her sisters with respect, and Schlafly, the mother of six children, pats us on the head with tender-loving superiority...
...rape case. The victim of the New Bedford gang rape had her "character" placed under glass and combed backwards and forwards day after day after day: meanwhile, no one, except a few lone voices, had the acuity to openly question the relevance of the woman's previous behavior to what transpired on the night of the attack. What does it matter what kind of person she was before the attack? What would it matter if she had never uttered an honest statement in her life, up until the time of the assualt...
SOME FEMINISTS would describe the trial as a direct reflection of the double standard within our society. Whereas a male plaintiff remains relatively unimpugnable no matter how sordid his personal history, a woman who displays less than pristine behavior in one set of circumstances is assumed to automatically "invite" attack in all others...
...Vice-President Anthony A. Ball '86 proposed that his group print a statement of their feelings about police behavior and give it to all members of the police force...
Johnson added that some Harvard police do harbor ingrained racist attitudes, bet said he was working to "get rid of the bad apples." He added, "Direction must be taken from the top. If the boss won't tolerate such behavior, the officers...