Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MUCH AGONIZING has gone on recently about Radcliffe's place in the University and its relevance or irrelevance to undergraduate women. Many women here feel its presence in their lives only fleetingly; from time to time they are invited to parties at the President's house or to functions sponsored by the alumnae; asked where they go to school, they say, "Harvard." Radcliffe is perceived as powerless and timid in the defense of women's issues. Unfortunately, the confusions surrounding Radcliffe's complicated and shifting position with Harvard have obscured many of the real issues, and made it extremely difficult...
...MANY undergraduate women, the question of conflicting loyalities is very real. Some feel that whatever attachments they have to Radcliffe, they are mostly sentimental; having no clout. Radcliffe cannot be an effective representative of their interests. Harvard holds the clout, the purse-strings; therefore, their petitions must be addressed to Harvard...
...Long March. Bureau Chief Marsh Clark had recently completed a three-year assignment in Moscow. He found it easier to get information on the Chinese Communists than the Soviets. One reason: the famed wall posters, which, says Clark, "tell us much about how the Chinese people feel these days about their leaders." Adds Clark: "On a trip to the mainland I found the officials engagingly candid about the conditions in their country...
...assertiveness training, consciousness raising. In Grand Island, Neb., for example, Evelyn Spiehs, 49, widowed last spring, attends a weekly rap session with six other women, goes to larger career-guidance workshops and receives legal counseling. "It felt good to know they understood," she says, "and didn't just feel sorry for me. I wouldn't have been able to face anything yet without them...
...McEnroe played plenty of tennis as a boy, but he was not raised in the kind of hothouse, year-round pressure to succeed that produced Connors or Chris Evert. He even went out for soccer at school. Yet tennis was obviously his game?that touch was always there, that feel for the ball that cannot be taught?and he made a superbly dramatic entrance to the big time: gaining the semifinals at Wimbledon in 1977 at the age of 18, the youngest male ever to do so, before losing to Connors...