Word: karens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bring far more women" into top levels of Government. But how many were enough to satisfy the passions such a promise aroused? Last week, as his second month in office ended, women were assessing Carter's performance and deciding that it fell well short of his declarations. Says Karen DeCrow, president of the National Organization for Women (NOW): "Women's rights are simply not a high priority of this Administration...
...women's sports at Harvard. Radcliffe basketball--only two upperclasswomen. Senior Sue Williams and junior captain Katherine Fulton; swimming--a 21 women team of which only two were upperclasswomen, senior captain Jane Hendricks and junior Sue Schwartz; field hockey--only three upper class members, senior captain Ann Dupuis, senior Karen Lindsley and junior captain-elect Lucy Wood, squash three of the first seven squashers were freshwomen...
TIME correspondents around the nation turned up more indications that for the time being, at least, Americans are taken with Carter's downhome, cardigan style. Even the West, which went overwhelmingly for Ford last November, is now warming to the President. Says Karen Stone, a housewife active in Democratic Party politics in Pacific Palisades, Calif: "There is something I'm beginning to like about Carter. The low-keyed, anti-folderol approach. I still mistrust his Baptist fundamentalist upbringing and the whole thing about his being a Southerner. But I must admit the accent is bothering me less than...
...works in journalism: "Everyone tells me I must not have a baby. That would mean that another woman has proved professionally unreliable. We were pioneers at college, and now everyone is working except one girl who's married to a law student. And everyone says, 'Poor Karen. She's really gone round the bend...
...every improvisational trick in the book. One night last week, the actress near the top of the pile played, among other things, Liv Ullman, a second-grade teacher, a cabinet member, a sex fiend, and Pittsburgh, all in two hours. The next night, I hear, she played Monty Hall, Karen Quinlan, and Elizabeth, New Jersey simultaneously. Wouldn't bet against...