Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems that the main cause of the conflict on female status in present-day society arises not so much from any question about the abilities of women as from the common tendency to forget that not all people are alike. While some women are perfectly happy in a full-time domestic life, others would be reduced to a state of near insanity by it, and are better off in the working world; still others, like Phyllis McGinley, are able to combine both. It would be nice if some day we could stop trying to force all women into a common...
Militant Catholics and Buddhists-the main threat to any Saigon regime -were skeptical about Ky's chances of survival, but seemed willing to give him a chance. U.S. officials cautioned privately that Ky was too young and impulsive to endure for long in the volatile world of Saigon politics. Ky himself was aware of the dangers that plague anyone in that sphere. "I have told my wife to buy me a coffin," he remarked to reporters. "But as soon as I fall, another member of the team will replace me. There is no question of the government...
...southern provinces, where rebellion against Khartoum's control has festered for months. Last week he managed to find southerners to fill three Cabinet posts reserved for the south. Next step: southern elections, which the insurgency has so far made impossible. Speaking to Parliament last week, Mahgoub said, "Our main duty is to face the great challenge of realizing security and stability, and pressing forward with the revival of democracy after six years of military oppression." Mahgoub saw no "insuperable blockades" to good relations with neighboring Egypt and hinted that the Sudan will no longer serve as a transit route...
...Main Wish. Not long ago, Baldwin was voted a membership in the Kusadasi City Club as its only foreign member, and he is also a stalwart of the local Sports Club, on behalf of which he is now working on a plan to bring in groups of foreign hunters. The police no longer keep any watch over their popular prisoner, who could easily escape by rowing the few miles across to the Greek island of Samos. Says Sub-Governor Turk: "Ken came here unknown and without friends. But today we in Kusadasi, all of us, consider...
...recent years, Bayreuth Freudian. Last week, for a change, Munich's National Theater opened a new Tristan und Isolde that dispensed almost entirely with theatrical effects, set the most important scenes in near-darkness. Explained Director Rudolf Hartmann: "I wanted this to be a Tristan in which the main interpretation was left to the music." His concern, which would have delighted Richard Wagner, suited the occasion: the 100th anniversary of Tristan's première-also in Munich...