Word: forbiddingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Your story "First No to Sex Bias" [Dec. 6] says somewhat disapprovingly that the courts have upheld laws that forbid women to work as bartenders. If a man bartender becomes rude or obnoxious, one can always slug him over the head with a beer bottle, but what do you do to a woman bartender under similar circumstances? Women tending bar are an insult to motherhood. They should be home looking after their children...
...decorated with pictures of masks that Sales thinks were worn by Amazons during their manhunting raids on nearby villages. To produce a suitable hypnotic effect during mating rites, the Amazons apparently played flutes, which are also carved on the cave walls. To this day, Sales reports, local Indian men forbid their women to play flutes, lest they take to reviving Amazonian ways...
...foremost artistic personalities of our generation. I have always been fascinated by the fact that for some reason (ostensibly because of the political connotations of the art form), rock musicians have never been considered genuine artists--of the same order as a Casals, a Picasso, a Rubinstein, or (God forbid) a Beethoven or a Bach. Yet I would suggest that the work of the Dead compare favorably with the work of any of these. Listen to the early recordings. For the last six years, every concert something else--a musical manifestation of a unique juncture in time and space, with...
...forbid sex discrimination in the hiring and salaries of university employees, including faculty members...
...Heaven forbid! We all know that to dehumanize athletics to the level of mere battling instincts is an unfair judgment. Why, athletics is more than visible conflict. It's a character building experience, where a young man can assert himself proudly, experience the various effects of life situations (struggle, victory, defeat, reward and punishment), and withdraw a stronger person for the new understanding. Praise belongs to the athlete, for as Teddy Roosevelt said," ...if he fails, at least (the athlete) fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory...