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...about little. The hard fact is that women very seldom do equal work. This is partly their own fault. "Opportunities have been made available to women far beyond their desires to use them. [And] the women who avail themselves of opportunities too often do so in a feminine, filial, servile fashion." Why? Because women's energy "is systematically deflected from birth to puberty, so that when they come to maturity they have only fitful resource and creativity...
...each climate, culture and race. It must plunge its roots deep into the spiritual and cultural soil of each place and assimilate each genuine value." Among Asia's special values singled out by Paul: "The discipline of your ascetics, the profound religious spirit of your people, the filial piety and attachment to the family, the cult of ancestors...
...Filial Devotion. Wayne crooned on TV, on records, in nightclubs. Not that everyone was wild about him. As he recalls: "We had a lot of people insult us and tell us to get out of the business. In Las Vegas we even had people throw things...
...after becoming Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Robert Finch confided to an interviewer: "I am the most liberal member of this Cabinet.'' That was not the only distinction possessed by Richard Nixon's youngest and most attractive department chief, now 44. Finch's almost filial relationship with the President, going back nearly 25 years, was the most personal claimed by any Cabinet officer. He had the most promising political future in the group. For all these great expectations, Finch has been the most abused and frustrated high official in Washington. Last week he became...
...NIGHT ALL CATS ARE GREY by Patrick Boyle. 256 pages. Grove. $4.95. Filial infighting, the sound of sibling revelry by night, Irish wakes, corpse-rooms, tippling grannies, occasional flashes of savage perception and true humor...