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Still another reason for the E. and M. phenomenon may be the psychological undercurrent of Women's Lib. The movement could hardly ask for a better object lesson than Mary, whose submission to her passions and her sexuality was perverse and ultimately self-destructive. Nor could it seek a better symbol of equality-or superiority-than the woman who gave her name to England's greatest age. With a knowledge of seven languages and with all the academic disciplines of her time, Elizabeth was the perfect Renaissance prince, an inspiration to Spenser, Marlowe and Shakespeare. Beyond that...
Scandinavia is a hub of social and economic experimentation. Years before Women's Lib got going in the U.S., the Swedes created the hemmaman, a housebound husband who sent his wife off to work. Last year the Swedes also changed much of their auto industry by replacing sections of the assembly line with group assembly techniques (TIME, Jan. 17). Now R. BØg JØrgensen's Maskinfabrik, a Danish company that is Scandinavia's largest maker of food canning and freezing equipment, is pioneering an alternative to the weekly or monthly paycheck for employees...
Safire also notes that events of the past four years have produced or popularized a battery of phrases that came from neither the Administration nor its attackers. Notable among these are Women's Lib, Machismo and Middle America. But the Nixon team clearly walks away with the flight-of-fancy award, for which Safire must take part credit. As a Nixon and Agnew speechwriter, Safire is himself, responsible for Nattering Nabobs of Negativism...
...Tell Reader Carol Keough to fret no longer about discrimination appearing in math problems. Women's Lib is snowing up at the college level. Here is the kind of math homework my son struggles with...
...worker and estranged husband of Feminist Author Germaine Greer, was in Manhattan 3 to line up a publisher. He wants to write a book about "liberation from liberation. I like romance, and I want to write about how it is an aphrodisiac," he explained. As for Women's Lib, "It's just another form of puritanism. I think it makes life rather dull...