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...piker of Herbert Hoover, who in 1928 campaigned under the Republican slogan that merely promised U.S. women "a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage"). Capitalism, Sukarno said disdainfully, is "a man's world"; only under Socialism do women have plenty of time for "companionship, motherhood and love." Under a capitalistic society, "marriage has become a difficult economic problem. Many men here would like to marry, but they haven't the courage because their income is so small...
...ironically titled On Payment, chronicles the life of one of the most unpleasant females to cross the screen in a long time. She is determined ever to remain single, but nevertheless, marries a mild-mannered professor who believes that marriage should involve a "union of souls," and not sexual companionship. Unfortunately the professor soon realizes that such a platonic arrangement is unsatisfactory. Eventually his wife, who has secured him a promotion and a seat in Parliament, yields to him--but only as a bribe for introducing her feminist bills into Parliament...
Rage Toward Mamma. The men were more difficult to type. Explained Jacobson: "Although their physical health had been good, the incidence of severe psychopathology was high." Most of them had an "unmastered, unconscious rage toward the mother" and were deprived of close companionship with their fathers. Their relations with women were characterized "by anxiety, inhibition and avoidance." Like the nose-bobbing woman, said Psychiatrist Jacobson, the man who seeks rhinoplasty hopes to look handsome. But he is less eager to change his own psychological outlook than to change that of others toward...
...Grands Express Européens." Hand-cut glass separated the sleeping compartment from the outside aisle. In elegant salon cars, diners lingered over oysters and chilled glasses of Veuve Cliquot served by attendants in morning coats, light blue silk breeches, white stockings and buckled shoes. Elegant prostitutes provided companionship for the lonely on the long journey to the Orient...
...truth seems to be that these youths crave violence simply for its own sake. Living in incredibly squalid conditions, unable to gain any positive recognition from society, unable to find affection and companionship at home, they conceive of violence as their only alternative to nothingness...