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Current films seem to be putting youth back in its place. In his past roles, Steve McQueen often played the rebel -against home, hearth or system. But in Junior Banner he is a dutiful son who finally wins enough money to send his pa to his dreamland, Australia. In The Emperor of the North Pole Lee Marvin is trailed by a brash youth who wants to replace him as king of the hobos. But the crown stays squarely put on the gray head. At the end of the film Marvin boots the youth off the rails, shouting...
...neutral, who nevertheless gets a little queasy when shown some scenes of maimed North Vietnamese children (Kate Jackson). The movie is painstak∎∎ing in its refusal to take any kind of stand at all, other than a rather strong suggestion that war plays hob with hearth and home...
...caught an edge, slipped out of my toe piece, helicoptered down the fall line and wound up with a spiral in the tibia."* Besides, there is the legendary ambience of après-ski, which has become something of a hedonistic cliche but keeps attracting people with its roaring hearth fires and hot spiced wine in the lodges, its hard rock and casual flirtation in the bars. Still another lure: some skiers insist that ultraviolet rays from the sun, relatively unfiltered in the rarefied mountain air, have an aphrodisiac effect -an assertion that doctors deny...
Many currents of social change have converged to make the New Feminism an idea whose time has come. Mechanization and automation have made brawn less important in the marketplace. Better education has broadened women's view beyond home and hearth, heightening their awareness of possibilities-and their sense of frustration when those possibilities are not realized. As Toynbee had noted earlier, middle-class woman acquired education and a chance at a career at the very time she lost her domestic servants and the unpaid household help of relatives living in the old, large family; she had to become either...
...prosaic gains. They call for a drastic revision of society in general. In their view, the sexual roles must be redefined so as to free both sexes from the stereotypes and responsibilities that have existed for ages. The concept of man as hunter and woman as keeper of the hearth, these feminists declare, is obsolete and destructive for both sexes. It is not enough simply to share these roles without removing the pressures and drives that men now bear. To do so would merely give women, as well as men, heart attacks and ulcers. Hence the argument for freer, less...