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...single-room jacale at "La Cuchilla" (The Knife), a squatters' community on a ledge high above El Trotche. His food bill is $4 a day, and he must somehow find money for school uniforms and books for the children. To help out, his wife works as a laundress...
Lollipop Power and other groups dedicated to expunging sexist stereotypes from children's literature are hard at work. Even the popular, didactic Doctor Seuss has been taken to task for portraying all his animals-even hens-as male, and for giving only one woman an occupation: the royal laundress in Bartholomew and the Oobleck. Many textbooks are being rewritten to erase sexist bias (TIME, Nov. 5), and in real life children and parents are coping -sometimes ludicrously-with the change as best they...
Michael Novak's Slovak grandparents, oppressed by the Austro-Hungarian empire, emigrated to the United States for the classic reasons. One grandfather became a Pennsylvania farmer. One grandmother, widowed, hired out as housekeeper and laundress. Novak's parents mobiled upward, from Johnstown's Slovak ghetto to "the WASP suburb on the hill." Then Michael went the rest of the way. He is a sober-profiled Catholic professor of philosophy and religion, currently at the State University of New York. But with a book in one hand (perhaps even his own A Theology for Radical Politics...
...naturally; as the daughter of a stevedore in New Orleans, she just as naturally learned to combine it with the new beat of urban blues singers like Bessie Smith. She went to work at 13 as a washerwoman. After moving to Chicago at 16, she was a hotel maid, laundress and baby sitter before her choir solos won her a job on a crosscountry gospel crusade. Chicago remained her home until the end. There she married and divorced twice (no children), opened a beauty parlor and a florist shop with her earnings ($100,000 a year at her peak...
...surely as the water in the Hudson near by. Eleanor's Uncle Vallie, only 25, was a mean, unpredictable drunk who, among other things, took potshots at people walking on the grounds. Unsteady of aim, he always missed, but such pastimes made daily life harrowing. Eleanor befriended the laundress and spent hours in the cellar cranking the wringer and learning how to iron...