Word: lambing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Connecticut, a self-proclaimed congregation of Jewish humanists fashions a Passover Haggadah (the Seder narrative) that manages to avoid any mention of God. In Manhattan, an ecumenical group of friends sits down to a classic Seder meal including the symbolic foods: matzoth, bitter herbs and haunch of spring lamb. After reading the Haggadah, the group invites one of the Christians present to read from the New Testament; he chooses the passage in Luke where Jesus celebrates his Passover meal, the Last Supper...
...make them feel guilty about staying home. But the organized female resistance to the movement has been largely frivolous: MOM (for Men Our Masters), started by a Manhattan secretary, and its men's auxiliary WOW (for Women Our Wonders); and the Pussycat League, with its slogan "The lamb chop is mightier than the karate chop." More serious criticism has come from Ti-Grace Atkinson, an early theorist of the New Feminism who withdrew from the movement more than a year ago. Says Atkinson: "There is no movement. Movement means going some place, and the movement is not going anywhere...
...Liberation: "I'm in partnership with my husband." The Boltons run a 160-acre farm together. "I can't imagine getting a job somewhere. Every time I leave home, some of the animals get out. Who do you think chases them? The liberated woman." Charlotte Lamb, 34, a divorcee, was supporting her two sons by working as a secretary. Last month she was promoted to personnel manager. Only one man congratulated her; others made derogatory remarks. Says Lamb: "I hope I never go through a day like that again. I didn't expect that kind of reaction...
...refused to buy them from a company going out of business. "But I fooled them! I still have them in my room. Next time you come over you can see them. How about tomorrow: there's a good flick on the telly and I can make us some lamb stew with my leftovers--very nourishing...
Nixon Administration officials always expected a "bulge" in some prices after the expiration of last year's freeze, but what has been happening at the supermarket meat counter looks more like an upheaval. Retail beef and lamb prices have reached 20-year highs; pork prices, which slipped 16.6% early last year, are again climbing toward record levels. Just since the start of 1972, a Manhattan housewife has had to pay 12.6% more for a pound of pork chops...