Word: disarray
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...this lack of fatalism that makes The Girl I Left Behind an inspirational work. O'Reilly herself testifies that the feminist struggle is not easy, but passionately believes it can be won. Despite the psychic disarray the lifestyle she has deliberately chosen causes her, she believes it was the best--and only--course to be taken. O'Reilly asserts that the movement for a less sexist society will be easier for the generations of American women ahead of her, and that her generation--a transitional one brought up on the myths of stable marriages and clean kitchens--is suffering...
...election year when women's votes may ultimately decide who occupies the Oval Office and when 51 women, more than in any other year, are running for Congress, the struggle for the Equal Rights Amendment and the entire women's movement is in a state of disarray. While such women as Senate hopeful Elizabeth Holtzman of New York and Rep. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland are being hailed as the core of a "new girl network," feminist leaders are squabbling over methods to insure that three more states will pass the ERA before the June 30, 1982 deadline...
...consists of individuals who have carried the logic of modern culture to its end... they make up a cultural phenomenon that mirrors the breakdown of traditional values in Western society. It is not a "new class' in any social-structural sense. It is the endpoint of a culture in disarray...
...long resented eastern industrial eities like Toronto, which for a long time held an inordinate piece of the economic pie. The Maritime provinces, traditionally the weakest economically, fear that greater centralization could jeopardize their already tenuous position. And Levesque stands to gain the most personally from a country in disarray; he could then tell his constituency that Quebec would better be able to fend for itself by seceding...
During the four years he traversed Africa--visiting 48 of 51 countries, Los Angeles Times correspondent David Lamb observed a continent in disarray, where progress, when it occurs, occurs slowly and with uncertainty. Now a Neiman Fellow at Harvard, the veteran correspondent who has also covered Australia and the Vietnam War, describes Africa as his most difficult assignment. "In Africa, there are no press release," he explains...