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...film about how Mom overcomes Dad's loud protests and brings assorted orphans into the house. She does this by weeping, by putting the frost on, by cajoling, or by any combination of these techniques. Mixed Company is a good case for the founding of men's lib. Not only is Dad generally a nitwit; he is not even a virile one. A recent case of the mumps has put him out of the reproductive action, and he is impotent even in his job. His work and his home life are the same; he keeps yelling and losing...
Gilder just shrugs: "Maybe they'll like my new book better." They just might. Naked Nomads (Quadrangle; $7.95), published this week, continues the argument for marriage. But the bitter sniping against women's lib is gone and Gilder announces that our major social problem is men-unmarried...
...option, one that stands as the official position of the party leadership: coalition with one of the major parties to form a more broadly-based government, in which Thorpe would hold the balance of power. Actually, his position is less attractive since Wilson has ruled out a twenties-style Lib-Lab coalition and therefore Liberal willingness to join a coalition means a willingness to join the Conservatives. If the Liberals are to continue to receive the benefit of protest votes from dissatisfied voters of both parties they must insure that they are not too closely identified with either...
...something telling to say about all sorts of contemporary issues. Plea-bargaining by Watergate defendants? "It seems if he is lucky enough to get convicted, or confesses, why, he has a great chance of coming clear," Rogers wrote in a 1928 column on criminal-court procedures. Women's lib? "Imagine the idea that woman couldn't live happily at home and have an active mind" (1925). Gun control? "I see where a lot of men are advocating letting everybody carry guns, with the idea that they will be able to protect themselves. In other words, just make...
...Jean Mauze. Although she has been a major contributor to cancer research and donated a small park to New York City, she and her philanthropies have been overshadowed by those of her brothers. Explains John D. Ill: "It was five to one, and this was before women's lib...