Word: firor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...down from Canada. The snow covering also contributes to the dramatic difference between land and water temperatures, which in turn stimulates more storms along the East Coast-including the nor'easters that have been battering oil tankers. All the while, Western states have remained relatively unscathed. Says John Firor, executive director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo.: "This year winter seems to have become stuck east of the Rockies...
...civilian labor force rose more than 40%; much of the increase was in technical and professional jobs. Women have accomplished this quiet revolution almost circumspectly -taking a cue from their mothers by never attacking the old code headon. "As long as she was respectable," says Duke University Historian Anne Firor Scott, "a Southern woman could get away with an awful lot." A young Georgia-born woman-now a writer in New York-recalls her mother drumming into her head: "Do, but don't be seen doing." Says Molly Haskell, a Manhattan movie critic who was raised in Virginia...
...until the late '60s and early '70s there were so few researchers interested in the library's resources that the historian Anne Firor Scott could write in her journal as late as 1960, "Women's Archives very welcoming...glad to have somebody using their stuff." But things have changed--the greatest external influence on the library has no doubt been the national women's movement, which has increased curiosity about the history of women and legitimized the study of it. And with the naming of the Schlesinger Library as the official repository of the records of the National Organization...
...significant impact on American life. Only the wives of presidents are admitted on their husbands' credentials alone: all the other women distinguished themselves by their ideas and actions--in the arts, in the sciences, in religion and reform, in business and philanthropy. The biographers are noted scholars themselves--Anne Firor Scott on Jane Addams, Allan Nevins on Jessie Benton Fremont, Leon Edel on Willa Cather and Alice James...