Word: contentions
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Stephanie Monaghan, a freshman CHUL representative, said yesterday that "most freshmen are content with the delay because they haven't made up their minds yet about which House they want to join. As long as there isn't a big delay it shouldn't be a problem...
...readers uncomfortable. It leaves one with conflicting impressions, dispelling some of the myths that many feminists and statisticians would have one believe. For example, How does not suggest that women are invariably oppressed; in fact, the overriding impression the book gives is that most women in traditional spheres are content to be there, but that they are angered by the stigma attached to their situations, uneasy about the lack of job security, and fatalistic about the chances for advancement. As Suzy the beautician says: "The pay is lousy, the security is lousy, the benefits are lousy, the union is lousy...
...conflicting values--among women as much as among men--are especially striking in the chapter on "Homemakers." Most of the full-time housewives whom Howe interviewed were content with their lives and proud of their accomplishments. But in every case, the contentment was tinged with guilt feelings and with insecurities. On the one hand, the woman at home feels like a traitor to the feminist movement. On the other, she is genuinely worried about the insecurity of her position; she has no social security, no contingency plans should her husband lose the ability or desire to provide...
What will probably hurt the reception of Laughing Last is Tony Hiss's handling of the Hiss case itself. Because he is not making a legal argument, or reviewing the evidence, he touches only briefly upon the major issues. He is content to recapitulate his father's well-known version of the story, which is already in the public record, and to quote the opinions of former Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, who finds the case a shocking miscarriage of justice. Because of the sketchiness of his defense, some people are going to say that he has failed...