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...suggesting that given equal education and opportunity, females would be the professional equal of men. Horace Walpole called her a "philosophical serpent" and a "hyena in petticoats." Even her friends, the liberal though pious Dissenters, were shocked by her challenge to the ancient wisdom that considered women to be imperfect...
...that must be said in his favor--and it is significant, for many other memorialists fall into the trap--is that he completely avoids sentimentality or indulgence for his 18-year-old self. He makes no attempt to portray his friends or his earlier self as anything other than imperfect individuals. He appears to possess that higher form of egotism that prompted Oliver Cromwell to have himself painted warts...
...respected professor and clinician, Guttmacher preached that birth control information and devices must be made available to everyone. In 1962 he became president of Planned Parenthood-World Population and began jetting the globe to spread his message. He urged the use of I.U.D.s in underdeveloped countries, arguing that imperfect contraception was better than none...
...world is dangerously imperfect. There are no doctors, and so Comte dies of routine appendicitis. He becomes an object of mythic veneration, a Mao Tse-tung of the new age. In a post script - one has seen it coming a hun dred pages away - a successor notes that his fellow survivors have voted "that practical research into the manufacture of .36 rifle bullets should be instituted immediately and given top priority." And so on. But post-apocalypse society is fun while it lasts...
...Larkey and Susan Grody struggled with a part which demanded entrances with very high notes. The critical attack on the first note is harder on the French horn than almost any other instrument, especially on high notes. Baker had the two stand to accept applause for their determined, if imperfect efforts...