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...matron-career woman notion promoted by Radcliffe is a dreadful illusion, and one which if taken seriously can keep us not only from developing our own possibilities, but from relating to other women. The contempt and mistrust women have for each other, even when they are "friends," is the counterpart of the excessive awe we feel towards-men, and part of what makes us sense that we would be utterly desolate without a man in our lives...
...Summer Festival Orchestra, like its counterpart, the Boston Philharmonic, fills a great gap in the cultural life of Boston. This city has been forced for so much too long to tolerate a rapidly deteriorating orchestra with a virtual monopoly on the city's cultural life. The presence of visible competition can only be a benefit to the city, and might even force the Boston Symphony to improve...
...sauccers was at a high point. Perhaps not coincidentally, the spirit of McCarthyism was in the recent past. And one of that period's most salient features was its fear of scientists who supposedly gave secrets to foreign nations. In short, the stereotype of the scientist was a political counterpart to the movies mad scientist image. Both impressions shared the classic fear that science was destroying society. But enlightened by "This Island Earth." the movie-goer felt reassured to know that the traitorous fellow-traveller scientists which he feared were only working for peace themselves. And even more reassuring...
...THERE are several reasons why The Strawberry Statement and its counterpart, Getting Straight, do not explain the "youth culture," the "campus unrest," or any of various movements which people refer to as "the revolution...
...cher ami, at last you are here," said French Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann as he spotted his British counterpart, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, in Luxembourg's glass-sheathed Centre Européen. "I'm glad to see you!" Did Schumann's government share that feeling? That was the critical question last week as the foreign ministers of Europe's six Common Market nations greeted the delegates from the four hopeful applicants-Ireland, Norway and Denmark as well as Britain...