Word: dares
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ouster, she called him a "bigot," guilty of "the basest sort of prejudice against women . . . His use of the menstrual cycle and menopause to ridicule women and to caricature all women as neurotic and emotionally unbalanced was as indefensible and astonishing as those who still believe, let alone dare state, that the Negro is physiologically inferior." Betty (The Feminine Mystique) Friedan, former president of the National Organization for Women, labeled the doctor's viewpoint "medieval...
Like all others, the movie industry hires discriminately: whites over non-whites, men over women. rich over poor. It has created stars and studios to meet personal ambition and profit motivation. We wonder why the propman calls for the student radical to carry a sign which reads "Dare to struggle! Dare to win!" when in reality the sign might read "Off the pig's media...
...face of a few prigs is a cheap price for civilization to pay. Bombs and bomb throwers we've got. But where are the pies? Where are those pie throwers? They'll come in their own time and their own guise. Not even Herman Kahn would dare to predict the details-it is the nature of subversives to surprise. All we can do is wait and prepare to forgive them for the shock treatments they will provide us. Bring on those '70s clowns. A touch of madness may save us from the real thing...
...calling. He studied a year at Columbia Law School but disliked his classmates' chatter about money. In 1963, he became a cop for the same reasons he uses to persuade potential recruits. "The social potential of the policeman is incredible-self interest merges with public interest. If you dare to think about it," Durk says, "it's your last chance to be a knight errant...
Among first novelists, Howard Rose, even at 48, is the rookie whose natural talent may be exceeded only by his brashness. An art dealer in New York, Rose comes on like a man forging a masterpiece on a dare...