Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...essay this week deals with imaginary numbers, those intriguing but often inadequately supported figures that festoon our data-happy society. Like other publications, TIME sometimes finds it impossible to avoid using such numbers. They are accurate as far as anyone knows, but inevitably they represent estimates rather than precise measurements. In the current issue, the cover story quantifies East Pakistan's essentially unmeasurable agony in several ways (more than 7,000,000 refugees fled to India, for example). Elsewhere we note that U.S. crops are annually dusted with "about 1 billion pounds of pesticide" (ENVIRONMENT), and that microorganisms once...
...million. The lower figure is more widely accepted, but the number may never be known. For one thing, countless corpses have been dumped in rivers, wells and mass graves. For another, statistics from East Pakistan are even more unreliable than statistics from most other places (see TIME Essay). That is inevitable in a place where, before the refugee exodus began, 78 million people, 80% of them illiterate, were packed into an area no larger than Florida...
...topics as "rape in marriage" and "the psychology of rapist and victim." (Child care was provided.) For women who cannot bring themselves to feel raped, there is a spectrum of lesser outrages to dwell upon, like being whistled at or ogled. Manhattan's Village Voice recently printed an essay "On Goosing" by Liberationist Susan Brownmiller, who furiously denounced all such male attentions as heinous insults, reminiscing painfully about her most memorable gooses from age 13 on and calling them "a long and systematic continuum of humiliation...
...Mellors, for example. In celebrating the "transformation of masculine ascendancy into a mystical religion," D.H. Lawrence presents "sexual politics in its most overpowering form," she wrote. Katherine Anne Porter, no feminist at all but a perceptive novelist, analyzed the situation quite differently. "It is plain," she wrote in an essay eleven years ago, "that Lady Chatterley will shortly be looking for another man; I give Mellors two years at the rate he is going, if sex is really all he has to offer her, all she is able to accept. For if sex alone is what she must have...
...accelerating change is a result not only of the rise of Women's Lib (see TIME Essay, page 36), but of a complex of other social, legal and economic factors. Women are getting more formal education-42% of last June's college graduates were women-and they want to put their degrees to work. Now that civil rights laws bar discrimination by sex, more and more women are demanding relatively high-pay, blue-collar jobs. Federal courts have ruled against companies that refused to hire women as railway agents and telephone switchmen. In the courts, women...