Word: gunther
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nicholas B. Gunther is a graduate student at Harvard studying Mathematics...
Although I agreed with some of what Nicholas Gunther wrote in his article Men, Women and Sexism (February 9), much of what he said disturbed me deeply. There is less discussion among both men and women of our generation about sexism than there was a few years ago, when feminism was a 'new' issue. With this decreased discussion I feel there has been a growing confusion about the issues involved and their implications...
...late '60s and early '70s, brought into full view a whole slew of problems and injustices, of which both men and women are the victims. Some seem relatively straight-forward, such as job discrimination; some were enormously complex, such as the various issues revolving around human sexuality. Unfortunately, as Gunther's article suggests, the latter type is being milked for all it is worth in the commercial world...
...Gunther's piece also illustrates how easy it is to confuse the ackowledgement that a problem exists, and the problem's resolution. And to go a step further, his article represents reaction against what he sees as excessive reform, when in fact much reform has not occured in the first place...
...discovered his vocation. After getting his B.A. from Princeton and studying international relations at Harvard, he became a Congressman's aide, then political editor of Washington's Congressional Quarterly. There he was struck by the dearth of information on state and local problems. He decided that John Gunther's Inside U.S.A. (1947) should be updated, asked Gunther if he might help him do the job and instead received the author's blessing to take on the project alone. The result: seven books on regions of the U.S., beginning with The Megastates in 1972. An eighth volume...