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Another area of policy dissent is the lesbian issue. For years, men automatically shrugged off demands for female equality by labeling complainants "nothing but lesbians." The charge is manifestly unfair?a "lavender herring" at best, as Author Susan Brownmiller notes ?but women in the movement are supersensitive about the issue. So much so, in fact, that many lesbians have split from the movement to "combat," as Lois Hart wrote to the New York Times, "oppression at the hands of their straight sisters. They bravely talk about liberating themselves from dehumanizing sexual-role definitions, but then employ the same odious...
...their tune when reports of gold filtered south from Nome and Fairbanks at the turn of the century. Some prospectors came with a pack and left with a bundle. The 1916 copper rush in Cordova was equally ruthless. The mines closed 20 years later, depleted. Only the fish?salmon, herring and halibut?kept the local economy going...
...using listings for The Fantasticks, Fiddler on the Roof and Hello, Dolly! to serialize James Joyce's Ulysses, sentence by sentence. Says Botsford of reader reaction to his serialization: "Many are delighted they can identify the excerpts, but others think we are trying to communicate with the Russian herring fleet in code...
...starting wage of three rubles a month ($3.33), the recruit usually spends most of it at his unit's bufet on candies and cookies to liven up his nourishing but dull diet. Breakfast usually consists of kasha (cereal porridge), bread and tea. Lunch, the main meal, may include herring, onions, a bowl of potato or vegetable soup with a chunk of meat in it, macaroni or beans, and more bread. Supper may be mashed potatoes and perhaps cabbage or cauliflower-and more bread. A Russian soldier consumes an average 1½ lbs. of bread a day, one reason that...
...first half of "Man: A Course of Study" teaches children what is known about the life cycles and behavior patterns of particular animal species (salmon, herring gulls, baboons). The animal facts are designed to stimulate freewheeling discussions about human behavior, mainly as the kids see it. "We are trying to rely as much on their insights as possible," says Course Director Dow. "We would argue that it's more fruitful to let the analogies grow out of the experience of the kids than to try to structure the analogies for them...