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A Sickness? It was scarcely surprising that The Feminine Mystique, which attacked the whole structure of Phyllis McGinley's convictions, provoked the contented housewife of Grindstone Hill into a spirited response. Betty Friedan's book classified the housewife state as nothing short of "dangerous." "It is not an...
A baseball fan would imagine that any manager who had 1) never been fired, 2) finished no worse than second in 14 out of his 17 years on the job, and 3) just signed a two-year $40,000-a-year contract would be a contented man. Not the Chicago...
But those were relatively innocent days, especially in so far as recognition of the hemispheric aims of international Communism was concerned. In the early 1950s, when a Red regime took over Guatemala, the OAS contented itself with only, a tentative step toward meeting the Communist threat. Adopted at the OAS...
Overbearing Allies. Noman's peace drive obviously has the tacit blessing of Nasser, who is pained by the $500,000-a-day drain and the occupation of the Egyptian army in a bloody and endless war. In fact, everyone is fed up. The royalist tribes have had their villages...
Did it all mean that Italians now want a second Mussolini? Hardly, for Italians are generally prosperous and contented, and the neo-Fascist party draws less than 5% of the vote. What the reassessment does show is that older Italians regard the Fascist era as so far behind them that...