Word: freidan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scene is a sample day-care center in City Hall Park, set up to dramatize one of the strike's demands-free day-care throughout the city. Onlookers, men and women, crowd against police barricades-only mothers with children and press are to be allowed in. Except for Betty Freidan, the strike's national coordinator, without press card or child. And Bella Abzug, Congressional candidate. Not, however, Lucy Komisar, national Secretary of NOW, who is wearing slacks and hurling insults and behaving unlike a lady. A sound truck plays, over and over again, a recording of Liberation Now, the strike...
SUDDEN RUSH of newsmen to center of park, I am nearly trampled by cameraman. Betty Freidan has arrived. "No woman that I've encountered is not feeling great elation on this day," she says. The beat of Liberation Now gets louder. "Ah, they're not burning any bras; let's get out of here," a man mutters. "Flags, flags, flags for sale-look real good on television," that old man calls. A woman tries to interest the photographers in plastic playground equipment she is demonstrating. They ignore...