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...press conference was called to admit defeat, to say that the ten-year drive to win ratification for the Equal Rights Amendment was over. But Eleanor Smeal, president of the National Organization for Women, which led the push for the ERA, still had fire in her eyes, like a boxer who felt robbed by the judges and was demanding a rematch. "It's been a long and tough fight," she said. "The forces against equality are large. But support for the ERA is overwhelming. The campaign is not over. We know that we are the wave of the future...
...showing that public support for passage has increased since January from 50% to 63% and a huge outpouring of money (more than $ 1 million a month in contributions to the National Organization for Women since December), ERA activists have intensified their last-ditch push for ratification. Says NOW President Eleanor Smeal: "Women want to be equal and they refuse to believe that their country would vote that they...
...among the freshmen. Since most of the less obvious aspects of Radcliffe have not had time to reach them, many freshman express bewilderment. "I don't even think of Radcliffe," says Delia B. Pooler '82, "only when I write letters--you know return addresses." "Radcliffe means being quadded," adds Eleanor S. Pollak '85, "I just think of the yard up there with Agassiz," Lillis E. Grove '85 says, "I don't know what they do except give teas...
...EDITORS wisely leave out mention of Hickok's alleged affair with Eleanor Roosevelt, for Hickok's importance lies only in her reporting for the Federal Relief Administration. Apathy and despair, hope and joyfulness, take on real meaning in her smoothly-styled prose. Often she becomes emphatic--in her concerned voice for the poverty-stricken or her impatience with the laziness she perceived among the Blacks she interviewed. (The editors don't spare Hickok's prejudices. In Negroes of the deep South, she sees only laziness and irresponsibility--no doubt bred from the legacy of paternalism and slavery...
Lorena Hickok observer occasionally becomes Lorena Hickok prophet. In a letter to Eleanor Roosevelt from North Dakota, she describes the squalor and degradation of a family of farm laborors: no shoes or stockings, feet purple with cold. Only one bed, with dirty pillows, a ragged mattress, and a blanket in tatters. "This," she concludes "is the stuff that farm strikes and agrarian revolutions are made of Communist agitators are in here now, working among these people, I was told. What to do about it--I don't know." And again, from Houston, the strains of the emerging impatience: She tells...