Word: girls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fast yielding to the demand of the young for knowledge, and the determination of the emancipators that they should have it. In Morocco the government has reduced illiteracy an impressive 10% in the two years since independence. In Tunisia's two years as a nation, the number of girls attending schools has increased tenfold. Ten years ago there were only five women's colleges in Pakistan; now there are 25, including medical and law schools. This drive for education has sharply divided generations. Observed one Moroccan educator: "If a girl is 15 and living in the city, chances...
...Nigerian girl who has broken with tradition is 21-year-old Zeinab Wali, a slim, golden-skinned girl of Tripolitanian Arab stock. Zeinab married a young government official when she was 17. Normally, she would have gone into kulle, the Nigerian equivalent of purdah. Instead, she returned to school (something few if any Nigerian women in Kano had ever done before), took her teacher's certificate and now spends her time demonstrating her conviction that a woman can be a good Moslem without vegetating in purdah...
...indefatigable worker, Zeinab Wali organized Nigerian Girl Guide and Brownie units, preached subtle emancipation propaganda on a weekly radio program called "Women's Chapter," and actively encouraged other women to be less timid and go for drives in her blue-black Vauxhall sedan. To women friends walled up in purdah in their compounds, she slips secret messages about the beauties of the world outside. Her description of birds and flowers so fascinated one friend, the wife of a Cabinet minister in Kaduna, that the wife screwed up her courage, presented Zeinab's letter to her husband and demanded...
Even in the most advanced areas, Moslem woman's emancipation is not yet complete. Moslem husbands are still reluctant to send their wives to male doctors, and Moslem women are reluctant to go. Though girls have increasing voice in their choice of husbands, most defer to their father's wishes. Even the most progressive Moslem men seldom invite even close friends to meet their wives, particularly non-Moslem friends. At the American University of Beirut and Beirut College for Women, modern young Moslem girl students wear blue jeans, go water skiing, do the rock 'n' roll...
...bandaged old man who lost his ears for criticizing the Lord Chancellor; and the prince's whipping boy, hardly bigger than the Great Seal used by the pauper to crack nuts in the palace. But the play's most memorable image was its gentlest: a lovely little girl (Patty Duke, 8) finding the tattered prince-by then the king-asleep in a haystack. The prince identified himself as "the king" and, while a tiny kitten pawed at her long tresses, she asked with disarming, grave eyes: "Oh, what king...