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Inaugurating the first series of Lemann Lectures on contemporary relationships between men and women, Bruno Bettelheim last night once again outlined the frustrations an educated woman might feel if she let her marriage center on "puttering around the house and puttering around the children...
Forcefully reiterating his Harper's article of last October, Bettelheim warned that women cannot rely on their husbands to relieve the boredom of "busy-work" in the woman's home role. He urged that a woman have "a challenging, stimulating intellectual life of her own" so that she does not come to blame her husband for the monotony of her life and the resulting feelings of dissatisfaction...