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...equally contemptuous of Phyllis McGinle and the "fulfillment through baking bread" clique who tell women not to feel guilty about being "just housewives." Phyllis McGinley is not a housewife," Mrs. Friedan claims. "She does more than just jot poetry on shopping lists...
...however well-intentioned these reforms may be, they do not touch the basic problem. In practical terms, the administration has lost not a jot of its power...
...creeps, call them what will you, claim that that the sight of scantily clad young women leaping into the air, legs well apart waving sticks with colored paper on their ends would have a beneficent effect on the team's performance. We view this position with more than a jot of disdain and more than a title of alarm...
...room mansion set on a 73-acre estate along Philadelphia's Main Line. He seldom rode in anything but a chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce, dressed in $500 silk suits and usually wore a fortune in gem-encrusted rings. Yet he insisted that he owned not a jot or a tittle of his empire. And legally, he was penniless when he died. Said his lawyer: "He had nothing; he never had to pay any income...
...Roman Catholic problem with the doctrine of transubstantiation has its roots deep in the penchant for defining every jot and tittle of the faith. The current reform is a healthy sign. Rome is trying with great success to return to unencrusted catholicity, and non-Romans must applaud its struggles with charity and hope. The prospects are very exciting for all Christians...