Word: maling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...detect a note of bitterness from those housewives who are disturbed at Jackie Kennedy's "chic"? May I say, on behalf of the male sex, that we love her "devil-may-care chic" and "floor-mop" hairdo...
Today what we have is a constant striving for superiority between male and female. Man is no longer considered the stalwart breadwinner of old; he is now brought down to the level of a junior partner in a family enterprise. The modern wife is judged not for her qualities as a mother and home-maker but for her qualifications and potential in the business world...
Just what does B. F. Bayruns mean by "femininity" that he claims we females have lost? He means no doubt our sitting with adoring eyes at the feet of some male as he pounds his chest and tells us what a wonderful guy he is. Well, times have changed. Men now preface marriage proposals with "Of course, you'll have to keep your job." We have no time to sit adoring any more...
...oldest ' profession, once ranked among its most respected. Plato made no distinction between mother and midwife, used the same word (maia) for both. An old Norwegian proverb advised: "The greatest joy is to become a mother; the second greatest is to be a midwife." But since 1648, when male doctors-at Paris' Hôtel-Dieu-were first permitted to attend a mother during a normal delivery, the role of the midwife throughout much of the world has been reduced to that of a mere birth attendant, patronized mostly by the poor and ignorant...
...proper courting gift for a Dhagestan maiden was a dozen or so severed male right hands, strung on a thong. Imaginative bloodletting was much admired; Afghanistan's rulers executed prisoners by tying them across the muzzles of cannon (until Western diplomats complained of flying flesh) and the Shah of Persia delightedly invented another sort of extinction: extracting the teeth and hammering them into the skull...