Word: greers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Writing in Playboy, radical feminist Germaine Greer suggests that rape means not just taking by force but taking by fame, charisma, insincere tenderness, or hints of favors to come or largesse to be withdrawn. It is even rape when a lonely woman goes to bed with a man not because she wants sex but because she "would like to develop some sort of relationship with him." Writes Greer: "The man who has it in his power to hire and fire women from an interesting or lucrative position may extort sexual favors. A man who is famous or charismatic might humiliate...
...first monthly issue, bearing a cover picture of the comic-strip character Wonder Woman, appeared in July and conveyed a mixed bag of goods. Essays blaming both the shaving of body hair and the wearing of panties (the latter written by Germaine Greer) on male oppression seemed bent on completing the self-parody of Women's Liberation that various public bra burnings had begun. But a piece describing the workings of an internal combustion engine...
...Truffaut) are now busily reinventing the 19th century novel of feeling for cinema audiences, who, it sometimes seems, no longer read. One can hardly blame Robert Crichton, therefore, if he puts between hard covers the makings of one of those harrowing, heartwarming 1930s film sagas that used to star Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon, attractively but thinly disguised as proletarians on the rise. The time is turn of the century; the place, a Scottish coalpit town complete with oppressed miners, strikes and lockouts, an unfeeling owner and a bloody-minded mine superintendent named Mr. Brothcock. Crichton's story centers...
...awakened at 2:10 a.m. E.S.T. to follow the returns, his TV screen would have presented quite a surprise. In many parts of the country, the screens were simply blank; in others they carried sign-off sermonettes or such ancient movie reruns as The Valley of Decision, starring Greer Garson and Gregory Peck. Never before in a presidential race had so many stations retired so early. Even during the Johnson landslide they had kept Dracula's hours, but this time all three networks wrapped up their coverage...
...practice meet a week ago Saturday, Rowe ran behind freshman Larry Greer by six seconds. Greer finished sixth in the race...