Word: luce
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There are two ways of explaining this phenomenon, said Carolyn Buck Luce, one of the authors of “The Hidden Brain Drain: Off-Ramps and On-Ramps in Women’s Careers...
...either blame the women and say they can’t cut it,” Buck Luce said, “or you can blame the model...
...hold onto their dreams, not only must women attain the necessary skills and experience, they must also have their achievements appropriately recognized,” wrote Buck Luce and study co-author Sylvia A. Hewlitt. “To the extent the latter is missing in female careers, ambition is undermined...
...chaos is a boon to the enterprising young journalist, who manages to meet many of the epoch's most colorful and influential characters?from Chiang, whose cozy relationship with TIME's editor-in-chief Henry Luce makes Rowan wonder if his stories will be censored, to China's impressively urbane first Premier, Zhou Enlai, to the aging ink-scroll master Qi Baishi, who, fearful of the Communists' hostility to his art, locks up his paints at night and wears the key on a rope around his waist...
...lipstick counter on Sale Day suggest that they too can be madly competitive? Once in a while, isn't the fairer sex horribly unfair to its own? Nichols doesn't think so. "Women's competitiveness with one another was always exaggerated, from the days of Clare Boothe Luce on," he says, referring to her 1936 play (and the 1939 movie) "The Women," which proposed that Manhattan's most privileged females were rolling and roiling in bitchery, gossip and recriminations, all designed to bring other women down. "And when cheese-and-wine sessions to discuss orgasms first hit (durng...