Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cigarette. The militants abhor Playboy as well as most women's magazines, which take an equally narrow view of the woman's role. To demonstrate their disgust and alienation from sexist society, the angries picket the Miss America contest, burn brassieres, and dump into "freedom trashcans" such symbols of female "oppression" as lingerie, false eyelashes and steno pads...
...Sexual freedom has never been the primary concern of women's movements -indeed, the English suffragettes even opposed birth control on the ground that it encouraged lust. Nor are the feminists of the Pill generation particularly partisans of the sexual revolution. "In a way, the relaxation of sexual mores just makes a woman's life more difficult," contends Ellen Willis, rock music critic for The New Yorker and militant feminist. "If she is not cautious about sex, she is likely to get hurt; if she is too cautious, she will lose her man to more obliging women. Either...
...cabins, teepees, metal domes constructed from jettisoned auto bodies), organic farming, sewage disposal, practical sociology. It also reprints a letter from a disillusioned former commune member who writes: "If the intentional community hopes to survive, it must be authoritarian, and if it is authoritarian, it offers no more freedom than conventional society. I am not pleased with this conclusion, but it now seems to me that the only way to be free is to be alone...
...about personal freedom," soberly explains Director Tom O'Horgan, a chichi con artist from off-off-Broadway. "It's about the responsibility of freedom." Futi might also just as well be a propaganda film for the anti-Anti-Vivisection Society, a moving plea for the tolerance of sodomists, or a fearless indictment of soil erosion. It makes no difference, and neither, really, does the movie. Based on Rochelle Owens' play and enacted by a group of wildly undisciplined shock troops who call themselves the La Mama Repertory Troupe,* Futz is merely a piece of fraudulent and fearsomely...
There were troops stationed on top of all the government buildings along the way. Lots of the boys flashed peace signs to us and we'd flash them back. I wondered if they envied us our apparent freedom, and then thought how sad it might all be if they were actually waiting for us to free them. I really wish I knew where the army...