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...throughout the country-in the same pattern, though not in the same numbers, as Prohibition was decades ago. Written by men, anti-abortion laws cannot quell the desperation of women for whom a particular pregnancy is a hateful foreign object. At their time of despair, women agree with Author Marya Mannes, who reviles such laws as the work of "the inseminators, not the bearers...
...some, the long beatlemanes and Carnaby Street clothes for boys do smack of something girlish. Nonsense, protested Social Critic Marya Mannes, 61, in a commentary delivered at a Manhattan conference of the National Council of Women. "Hair is both manly and womanly, and the shock of hair on a boy is far more virile and decorative than the crew cut," she said. As for the fashions, observed Marya, who dresses sedately enough herself: "If it's sometimes hard to tell boys and girls apart in boots and sweaters and pants and hair -well, to some of us they spell...
...WILL IT SELL? by Marya Marines. 240 pages. Lippincott...
...Marya Mannes, 59, and Milton Mayer, 55, are two of the more durable gadflies of U.S. letters-lifelong, card-carrying conscientious objectors. Between them, they provide a sort of check list of the more hoary cliches of Instant Social Criticism...
...Rich. Marya Mannes is a stately, handsome, sharp-tongued woman who enjoys nothing more than rising at a banquet table and flailing the be-jeesus out of her hosts. She once told the Women's National Press Club that, in most cities in America, the public "buys your papers to hold up at breakfast or to line the trash can or to light a fire, but not to learn...