Word: control
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that accompanies our Emmeline Pankhurst story. "I perched cautiously on the sofa," recalls Labi, "and quickly stood when Ms. Friedan entered the room. Her pose was authoritative, and her manner direct." Especially when she expounded on sex and autonomy. Intoned Friedan: "As women move to greater rights, opportunities and control of their destinies, all the measures of sexual satisfaction increase...
...response to your report "On The Defensive," which included different views on gun control [NATION, May 24], the kindest thing I can say about those who, like gun advocate Lisa Bochard, think teachers should carry guns is that they are fools. Do you want your child taught by someone who is willing to shoot students? Would this kind of atmosphere foster learning and personal growth in America's public schools? NIKKI CUNNINGHAM Columbus, Ohio...
...civil rights leader --Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union --Nelson Mandela, South African President --Mao Zedong, leader of communist China --Ronald Reagan, U.S. President --Eleanor Roosevelt, U.S. First Lady --Franklin Delano Roosevelt, U.S. President and New Deal architect --Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. President and environmentalist --Margaret Sanger, birth-control crusader --Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister --Unknown Tiananmen Square rebel --Lech Walesa, Polish union organizer...
Richard Pankhurst, whom she married in 1879, when she was 20 and he was 40, was a brilliant lawyer, selflessly dedicated to reform, who drafted pioneering legislation granting women independent control of their finances. Emmeline bore five children but lost two sons, and when Richard died suddenly in 1898, she was left to bring up her children alone, with no private means...
...relationship, as Anne wrote ecstatically in 1928, when the couple were "together, alone--all gold, that extra golden bloom over everything!" But, as Lindbergh's biographer A. Scott Berg writes, "their 'storybook romance,' as the press always presented it, was, in fact, a complex case history of control and repression, filled with joy and passion and grief and rage...