Word: libbed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Novelist-Journalist Rebecca West celebrated her 80th birthday by receiving an editor of the Sunday Telegraph, who asked her, predictably, about Women's Lib. "On the whole, I am with it," said Dame Rebecca. Nothing else that she said was in any way predictable. On women writers: "They seem hopelessly defeated by their domesticity. When I turn their pages, I see not just a pram in the hall but a whole house filled with prams, prams sideways up the stairs, prams in the back garden." On women at work: "The population is divided into people who like work...
During our 65 minute interview, a major topic was the new constitution -providing for a parliamentary instead of a presidential form of government -that Filipinos will be asked to endorse in a plebiscite on Jan. 15. Other subjects ranged from crime to Women's Lib. Excerpts...
...life is no less unconventional than her attitudes about acting. Unmarried, she lives alone in a nondescript house in Barnes, a decidedly unfashionable London neighborhood south of the Thames. She reads books. She is blunt. She speaks out, at times in four-letter words, on Women's Lib or birth control. She frankly discusses the fact that she lived for eight years with a married man, probably will do so again, and has no intention of ever marrying...
...held in higher esteem as masters of governmental management than is Elliot Lee Richardson, 52, the next Secretary of Defense-even though almost no one can adequately explain just why. The public Richardson is stuffily Bostonian, serenely confident, vaguely remote. His set speeches are bloodless and dull. His ad-lib language is so convoluted, yet grammatically correct, that one questioner at a Senate committee hearing jokingly confessed that he could not quite tell from a Richardson answer whether he was for, or against, drug abuse. Moreover, Richardson has been appointed to so many high posts (five in the past...
Before Fem Lib said frills will pollutecha...