Word: houseworkers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...until she was 76, when her arthritic hands could no longer hold an embroidery needle, that she started painting-just for something to do after the housework. When asked what artist of the past she admired, she said. "I've always liked Currier & Ives." Her paintings had the same nostalgic naivete; they were, as she put it, "Old-Timey." Sometimes she would do four paintings at a time to save paint ("I do the blue for one sky and then the three other skies"), and following her own rules, she always worked from the top down, filling...
...furnaces in their spare time. Millions of dazed peasants were regimented into the Great Leap. Banners called for 20 YEARS OF PROGRESS IN A SINGLE DAY! Accounting was ignored as a "headache that stands in the way of production." Women were freed from the "drudgery" of housework only to labor 18 hours a day in field and factory. Old folks were shut away in "happiness homes," babies in state-run crèches. In the nurseries. Chinese moppets sang...
...fact that women need men and motherhood. Mary Bunting, who would shudder at comparison with Susan B. Anthony, stands first of all for the family. She proposes no all-front feminine attack on the business and professional fields of men. But in a society of early marriage, lightened housework and lengthened lives, she does deplore women who abdicate their obligation to put their brains and education to creative use. Marriage, motherhood, the fledging of children and possibly widowhood subject a woman's life to stressful changes, and she must be "ready to come out alive...
...resigned. His big, blonde wife has given him three children whom he can hardly approach, so deep is the gulf of misunderstanding. And the wife herself has been blinded by an accident. Yet it is she who, by comparison, takes on the heroic cast. She goes on doing the housework, baking the bread, coping with the children. As for Paul, he has found an escape hatch in amateur astronomy. Weather permitting, he is out on the prairie each night with his telescope, tailing comets and sifting nebulae, sending the reports of his small findings to a society of amateur astronomers...
Korean women were advised not to wear jewelry, to "shun housemaids" and do their own housework, and to help "enlighten the public on the need for contraceptives." Korean men got the word to "refrain from exchanging vain tokens," to "avoid haggling over prices," and "to shake off the idea of making 'quick money.' " Both men and women were urged to greet each other each morning with the words "Let's reconstruct!" (foreign residents, including U.S. troops, "will also be encouraged to exchange this greeting"). To keep Koreans on their toes, there will be daily "reconstruction calisthenics...