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WORKING on a TIME cover story usually means immersion in the subject. The staffers who produced this week's article on Judaism - Religion Writer Mayo Mohs, Correspondent Richard Ostling deep Reporter-Researcher Clare Mead Rosen - plunged in deeper than most. During months of preparation, they compiled six shelves of books and a foot-high stack of original research from their own reporting and that of correspondents abroad...
...golden psychological moment for women, the moment at which their hopes were highest, was in the 1920s and 1930s, when they won the vote and began to go to college in considerable numbers, with the expectation of entering the professions," says Clare Boothe Luce, politician, diplomat and author. "Women then believed that the battle had been won. They made a brave start, going out and getting jobs." World War II made Rosie the Riveter a figure of folklore, and many women never before in the work force found that they liked the independence gained by working. The postwar reaction...
...world, women still have only a ritualized place: they are received regularly and warmly only in woman-centered trades like fashion or in acting. As Clare Luce puts it, "Power, money and sex are the three great American values today, and women have almost no access to power except through their husbands. They can get money mostly through sex-either legitimate sex, in the form of marriage, or nonmarried sex." Sexual freedom is not enough; "what leads to money and power is education and the ability to make money apart from...
...great man is one sentence," declared Clare Boothe Luce in a speech to the American Gas Association convention in Boston. "History has no time for more than one sentence, and it is always a sentence that has an active verb." Dwight Eisenhower's sentence: "He led the victorious armies of the alliance in the greatest war in history." John F. Kennedy's: "He challenged the might of the Soviet Union in the Western Hemisphere and won-short of war." Richard Nixon, she thinks, "may be in the process of writing his one sentence now. It will...
After graduation, Shapiro used a fellowship to study Greek tragedy and English literature at Cambridge University's Clare College. He continued to see a psychiatrist. The English atmosphere, he says, was "like a garden of recuperation, especially when kids I knew back home were blowing themselves up." One of those friends was Ted Gold, a Columbia radical turned Weatherman who was killed in the explosion of a Greenwich Village "bomb factory" last year. When Shapiro talks about Gold, he stutters...