Word: libbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book came out of a long series of conversations that Truman, then 77, had in 1961 and early 1962 with Novelist and Journalist Merle Miller during the preparation of a television series. The TV project did not pan out, but Miller, who has become a Gay Lib crusader in recent years, filed away his tapes and extensive notes of the talks. He explains that he just did not get around to doing anything with them until after Truman's death last December at the age of 88. Miller admits to never having told the former President about his plans...
...Cook, the tall one, has the imperturbable aplomb of a tightly furled umbrella. Moore, the short one, scurries round like a libidinous opossum. Employing literate wit and razor-edged satire, the pair take off on the Nativity, a homosexual Othello, Germaine Greer's theories on Women's Lib and the perils of running a two-course restaurant on the English moors. They make these and other unlikely subjects unconscionably funny...
...decade has it emerged as a potent political force. In the 1970 election, the péquistes (for the initials P.Q. in Parti Québécois) won 23.7% of the vote and seven seats in the assembly. In 1970 a separatist terror organization called the Front de Libération du Québec (F.L.Q.) kidnaped the British trade commissioner and murdered Pierre Laporte, the Liberal Party's Labor Minister. Ottawa's response was blunt: it imposed near martial law under the War Measures Act, and the Montreal streets were patrolled by helmeted troops...
...role of women in society. Friedan spent four minutes in a private audience with Pope Paul VI, urging him to accord women "personhood." The Pope thanked her for the work she had done on behalf of women and accepted as a gift a brass Women's Lib symbol. Said Friedan to the Pope: "As you see, this makes a different kind of cross." Friedan avoided dogmatic issues like birth control and divorce, maintaining that "the meeting was the message." But she did have one real ideological problem: whether she should cover her head. Rejecting what she described...
ADAM'S RIB. ABC. Friday, 9:30-10 p.m. E.D.T. Adam (Ken Howard) is an assistant D.A., and his wife Amanda (Blythe Danner) is also a lawyer, and the very thin rib is Women's Lib. At least that is what seems to have been intended in this half-hour comedy purportedly inspired by the 1949 classic Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn film of the same name. But the first two episodes did little to advance the cause. In the première, the woman lawyer was so emotionally shattered by having to spend a single night...