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...Perhaps the cruelest part of femininity is that it does not age well." Perhaps not, but neither does a feminism that chronicles the past with no eye toward the future...

Author: By Joanna R. Handelman, | Title: Lackadaisical 'Femininity' | 4/26/1984 | See Source »

...cruelest irony of the unemployment tax suggestion is that the Administration, for whatever reason, chose to unveil it on Thanksgiving. The nation's poor have once again been left wondering what in Reaganomics they have to give thanks for--and whether the President's Christmas gift to he jobless rolls he has created will be another nasty surprise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Cruel Tax | 12/2/1982 | See Source »

Christmas Trees: The "tannenbaum" finds its roots in the evergreens used for winter solstice festivals to show that life survives even in the cruelest seasons. The Egyptians erected green date palms indoors during their winter solstice rites; the Romans hung trinkets on pine trees during the Saturnalia; the druids placed candles, cakes and gilded apples in tree branches as offerings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grah Bag of Christmas Customs | 12/10/1981 | See Source »

...bear). He is a brilliant coach who was never an innovator. He oversees practices from a tower yet touches each player personally somehow. He is a humanitarian who began accepting black players no earlier than 1970. He is shy, but he is not retiring. He is called the cruelest coach in memory and the kindest man in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: No. 1, and Still Counting | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

...cruelest is to be published this week. Cat Hater's Handbook, subtitled The Ailurophobe's Delight (Avenel; $2.98) and illustrated by Tomi Ungerer, goes after cats as if they were creatures of the devil (some people think they are). Ailurophobe Author William Cole contends that cats are cruel, treacherous, unloving, smelly and parasitical. Cole assails the vaunted feline IQ, quoting a scientist at the American Museum of Natural History as saying that "a judgment from the literature would put the intelligence of cats below dogs and above rats." According to another researcher, the cat "is no philosopher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: A Comeuppance for Cats | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

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