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...assume that the Essay "Women Are Getting Out of Hand" [July 18] was written in jest. However, I must respond to your closing comment: "Clearly the future belongs to women." With the ERA not passed, with women being paid only 59? for every dollar that men earn, and with reproductive freedom still threatened, it is hardly assured that "the future belongs to women...
...every campus organization. "They understood one another with a kind of sweet simplicity," Michaelis writes. "Theirs was a friendship uncomplicated by demands, jealousy, competition." On Class Day, the awards chairman slapped a pair of handcuffs on them, "so that even graduation would not separate them." It was a fitting jest. When the two men donated Lourie-Love Hall to Princeton in 1964, the original handcuffs were preserved in the cornerstone of the new dormitory...
...that a system of free trade benefits all countries. But supporters of protectionism contend that "free trade" has become merely an academic abstraction. Reason: governments routinely subsidize key industries to give them an advantage in international trade AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland has made this case by proposing-in jest, but with a serious message-his Free Trade, Antiprotectionism and Antihypocrisy Act of 1983. The law would prohibit Americans from buying imports at prices that have been subsidized in any way by foreign governments or influenced by anything other than free-market forces. "For the first offense," the bill says...
...reputation or past history of addressing race relations. Bringing an entertainer, or anyone for that matter, to Harvard whose only claim to addressing the critical problem of race relations in the color of the skin, under the suspices of a foundation explicitly founded to promote race relations is a jest. More than a jest, it is an insult to the intelligence of all the students who wish to improve race relations at Harvard University and the community at large...
...Mountains are metaphors," Harold says, but imminent death is not. The two men jest, curse and trade raw-tongued obscenities-all impotent delaying actions. Playwright Meyers tries to penetrate the core of each man's being, but he is only fitfully successful. Information is not insight. Meyers probes the past lives of Taylor and Harold, but not their hearts and souls or the roots of their perplexing friendship. Taylor is a hard-nosed district attorney with a rightist bias who revels in his animal prowess with girls in singles bars. Harold is a do-good veteran...