Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston lady marched along chained to an oversize paper typewriter; in Berkeley, women wore pots and pans strapped to their backs. New Orleans States-Item women reporters ran engagement announcements with pictures of the groom-to-be instead of the bride-to-be. In Los Angeles, women at a rally donned Nixon masks and handed out flyers that read, "Thank you, women of America-by receiving low pay, paying those high, high prices and by increasing unemployment, you are valiantly contributing to my fight against inflation...
Academic Storm. The findings by Katz and Watson undermine the notion that race and intellect can be glibly linked. They also challenge the hypothesis of Berkeley Psychologist Arthur R. Jensen that in some forms of intelligence the Negro is genetically doomed to a lower position than the white. This proposition, published last year in the Harvard Educational Review, provoked an academic storm that has yet to subside...
...Newport. The fad seems to have blossomed on the West Coast, in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and has reached its full glory along Berkeley's Telegraph Avenue, the Fifth Avenue of the counterculture. There the variety is dazzling, further enhanced by the almost universal adoption of the braless look. Manhattan's lively East Village is another showcase for the undershirt underground, but the shirts are no longer the exclusive property of the kids. In the swank summer resorts of East Hampton, Southampton and Stonington, Captain America shirts are showing up. At the America's Cup races...
...movement has not produced much humor. But the April issue of Off Our Backs offered readers a Playboy-type centerfold showing a bearded Mr. April fetchingly posed nude on a shaggy fur rug. In Berkeley, when an organization called Women for the Free Future burned a diploma to symbolize their claim that the university failed to teach women anything relevant to their situation in society, they also incinerated a Barbie doll, a book by Norman Mailer (regarded as an arch-male chauvinist by the movement), birth-control pills, the Bible, and Good Housekeeping's list of the Ten Most Admired...
...kind of good treatment as women that white women have always had?they don't want to give it up too fast. Black men have just gotten enough money to take them to nice places, and women like it." Elizabeth Morgan, a supervisor for the Oakland-Berkeley Welfare Department, adds that some of "the symbols of the women's movement are too foreign for blacks to take on ... We just got out of jeans." Sexual oppression, to Mrs. Morgan at least, is less important to the black woman than racial oppression. "She knows," Mrs. Morgan says, "that in order...