Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There will be parades, fiery speeches and blunt street theater. In many cities, Freedom Trash Cans will be available to receive symbols of sexist oppression such as cosmetics, bras and detergents. NBC's Today show will focus on women's rights, and the cast will be all female. Next week's edition of the underground Los Angeles Free Press will be put out by an all-girl staff. Everywhere, women's liberation organizations are urging women at home or in the office "to confront your own unfinished business of equality...
...Phyllis Schlafly, in her late forties and the author of A Choice Not an Echo, which sounded the theme for Barry Goldwater's disastrous 1964 campaign, is a Republican candidate for Congress in Illinois. A blunt conservative who advocates a military establishment beyond the wildest dreams of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, she also sees her role as that of a "congressional watchdog" over excessive govern mental expenditures...
...deeply distressed about the prospect of an almost total U.S. stand-down in Asia. Reflecting that gloom, Thai Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman last week delivered a U.S.-baiting speech, charging that American policy is being warped by the "confusions and convulsions" of hippie and yippie culture. He added the blunt but perhaps not unreasonable observation that the U.S. "is exhibiting signs of derangement and systematic disorder...
...nothing else, TV offered the elaborate spoofs of Sid Caesar's Show of Shows. Mort Sahl, carrying a rolled-up newspaper like a blunt weapon, had set almost academic standards for the stand-up comedian as social critic. Lenny Bruce, Salvationist manque, was preaching his credo of holy scatology and apocalypse, "trying to panic people into laughing," as Sahl...
...Ford's chameleon-like moods, one element is constant: his blunt-spoken manner. The standout example is a statement given to Booton Herndon, author of an adulatory biography. During one luncheon interview, Ford announced that he had written "a whatchamacallem ?a preface" and handed it to Herndon, who published it as a passage in the book. Its text: "I'm not interested in this damn book. I'm only cooperating because I've been asked to. I don't care if anybody reads it or not. [Signed] Henry Ford...