Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Charles Bechtold, Health Education and Welfare branch office chief for financial aid, said yesterday his office this year was forced to cut back funds to schools when Congress "in its wisdom did not see fit" to reallocate last year's 38 per cent supplementary grant to the program...
...wrong, I think jobs for women--just like jobs for Blacks, Puerto Ricans and other disinhereited Americans--are crucial. But the problem with Equal Times is that it only concerns itself with the economics of a woman satisfied with and looking to fit into the American status quo. It offers neither an alternative worldview nor information or examples of alternative lifestyles and that's where it fails...
...this sense, of course, Equal Times seems to fit more neatly into the confines of the so-called New Feminism than any other women's newspaper around Boston and Cambridge. My recommendation is to steer clear of it despite its appealing look and to stick to the old-style, combative feminism that doesn't fit into the U.S. status quo and values. And my guess is that the editors of Equal Times might do well by themselves and their paper to take a few mixed-income and mixed-race CR sessions. For the new breed of feminist among...
...College announced that it no longer required Scholastic Aptitude Test and Achievement Test scores from applicants for admission. The decision was widely understood to be one college's reaction against the dangerously heavy emphasis placed upon standardized tests in admissions offices throughout the country and few other colleges saw fit to follow suit. In the subsequent floor of correspondence from students, parents, teachers and administrators who had heard the news, Richard Moll, then director of Bowdoin admissions, received a note from an admissions colleague in New York: "Bowdoin will never amount to anything anyway, because your zip code number...
...pain, anger and joy as he seeks to know himself--an exercise which all too often descends into maudlin intellectual wandering. But Guest succeeds in laying out what it's like to open the closet of one's mind, sort out what's there, throw out what doesn't fit and stack up the rest. As Conrad's psychiatrist points...