Word: gender
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...owners of L'Orangerie, maintain that the priceless-menu policy-which they have no intention of discontinuing-is not discrimination, but courtesy. It enables the guest to be treated as such, and allows the host to be the only one concerned with money, whatever the host's gender. Claims Ferry: "If a lady makes the reservation in her name, she'll get the menu with prices...
...line by admitting Novelist Marguerite Yourcenar, 76, author of Hadrian's Memoirs and acclaimed translator of Henry James and Virginia Woolf. Though Yourcenar holds U.S. as well as French citizenships and has lived in Maine for 30 years, what bothered the twelve who opposed her was principally her gender. Philosopher Jean Guitton, 78, grumbled that bringing a woman into the academy "is like putting a dove in the rabbit hutch. One inhabitant like that makes the place overpopulated." After 45 years of work, the group's current project, a definitive French dictionary, has reached the fs, which means...
...Bleeding Heart suggests a slight thaw. Its core is a seemingly endless and inconclusive dialogue-SALT talks in the gender wars-between a 45-year-old woman and her lover, a middle-aged businessman. Dolores Durer is a professor of English at a Boston college, divorced and the mother of grown children. She is in Oxford, England, to complete research for her book, Lot's Wife: A Study of the Identification of Women with Suffering...
...well, quoting everyone from Angela Davis: "Let us then forge among ourselves and our movements an indivisible strength," to Phyllis Schlafly: "Why should we lower ourselves to 'equal right' when we already have the status of special privilege?" to Patti Smith: "As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag...
These four have produced, within the past few months, records that stand with the most promising work of the year from any gender, male, female or convertible. Their music, despite different shadings of style, shares a boldness of spirit, a feeling of fragility conducting a heavy flirtation with absolute abandon. It can strut tough, cry soft or laugh up a sleeve. The best of it can go big and make the long reach look easy. It is mainline, rock-bottom rock 'n' roll, and it puts a lot of the fellas to shame. Or should, anyhow; but there...