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...again, this limited victory has not changed matters much. Harvard continues to view its tenants--and, indeed, most of the people of Cambridge--as chattel to be uprooted and driven out at will. Last spring's dispute over the use of the Treeland site illustrates nicely the arrogant, feudal paternalism with which Harvard manipulates Cambridge and its neighborhoods...
...virtually nonexistent: McQueen, injured in the race last year, returns to the competition to have another go at it. Since the film makers appear to have been interested in constructing a kind of fictional documentary, most of the dialogue has been eliminated. What remains is either mundane, mechanical chattel-or pitiful profundities of the why-I-race variety. Visually, the film never gets out of low gear. There is not a single scene or shot that was not done first and better by John Frankenheimer in Grand Prix...
...people's lib. Whatever affects us will certainly affect a man equally, or more. Maybe if we got our way, fewer men would waste their lives in materialistic maneuvering, then die at 50 of heart attacks caused by fretting over their monumental responsibilities to the chattel and her children. Maybe he could find another role besides the great provider and she the great provided...
...could TIME swallow Irving Howe's contention [Dec. 14] that the relationship between man 'master' and woman 'chattel' ". . . is perhaps the only such relationship in human history where the 'masters' sent themselves and their sons to die in wars while trying to spare their 'chattels...
...Paul's admonition about female silence, other passages of the Apostle's writings show that he expected women to take a prophetic role now and then. His reminder that "there is neither male nor female . . . in Christ" also helped to raise women from the level of chattel to partner. The early church had a specific office of deaconess. By the Middle Ages, when veneration of the Virgin Mary almost put her on the level of a goddess, religious orders had produced powerful abbesses who held their own in intellectual exchanges with men, as Chaucer's Canterbury Tales...