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...commission's report shows that in science, mathematics, social studies and citizenship-four of the eight areas studied-the sexes are roughly equal at age 9. But by age 13, girls fall behind in these areas of study in a relative decline that continues through adolescence and into adulthood. In reading ability and knowledge of literature, girls are ahead of boys until age 17, but the same pattern of relative decline shows up as they grow older. Only in writing ability and music do females outperform males in later years...
...only natural to think of meeting God as an American, since nationality is part of one's identity. In his new book, Time Toward Home: The American Experiment as Revelation (Seabury; $9.50), he goes well beyond that. He thinks Americans must accept moral responsibility for their citizenship, and if they do, "America may yet prove to be, as the founders hoped, a blessing and not a curse to the nations of the earth." Neuhaus believes "God has a hand in the American experiment." Such thinking in the past has led to cocksure identification of God's will with...
...demanding perfectionist who sometimes rehearsed for 36-hour stretches. Once, when a reluctant chorus member declined to jump from a 7-ft.-high perch, Felsenstein made the leap, broke his arm and returned 45 minutes later waving his cast and demanding "Now will you jump?" Felsenstein retained his Austrian citizenship and commuted daily from his home in West Berlin to the East, where he turned the Komische Oper into the Communist regime's leading cultural ornament...
Unlike today's women's libbers, the suffragettes were an isolated elite. Idealistic socialists for the most part, they believed the vote was enough to free them from second-class citizenship...
...most influential arms. As director of organization for the U.E., Matles gained a reputation as a left-leaning leader as well as an articulate, precise negotiator. In 1949 the U.E. was ousted from the anti-Communist CIO, and Matles was briefly deprived of his U.S. citizenship by a federal judge in 1957 on the ground that he had lied about his Communist ties when applying for naturalization more than 20 years earlier. The case went to the Supreme Court, where the decision was overturned. For three decades, Matles was a major force in shaping labor policy in the United States...