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...Feminism includes equality with men in the job market and in clubs, though it is not restricted to that. Already, women have invaded countless dens once reserved exclusively for the lion: there are women at McSorley's Old Ale House in New York, women in soapbox derbies and stock car races, women cadets in the Pennsylvania state police. Women have come to protest what seems to them to be the male chauvinism of rock music. An all-female group in Chicago belts...
WALTER MANSFIELD, 60, of New York, on the Second Circuit. Before moving up to the court of appeals in June, Mansfield sat for five years as a district court judge, where he made a distinguished record. One well-publicized decision required McSorley's Old Ale House in Manhattan to admit women. "Without suggesting that chivalry is dead," he wrote, "we no longer hold to Shakespeare's immortal phrase, 'Frailty, thy name is woman...
...worry that there will simply be less privacy. Last week, after New York City's Mayor John Lindsay signed a bill designed to open the city's public accommodations to women, a determined group of women's liberationists appeared at the door of McSorley's Old Ale House in the East Village. A delightful if grubby all-male sanctuary for 116 years, McSorley's was previously, as one aged regular said, "not the kind of place a nice girl would want to go to anyway." When the women appeared, rowdies booed and cursed ostentatiously, exhaling...
...earthy Manhattan neighborhood scenes were thought coarse and ugly. He was placed by the fussier critics in the "Ash Can School," did not sell a painting until he was 49. Today his works hang in the best museums, and for their richness in both color and local color (McSorley's Bar; The City from Greenwich Village) they rank with the best paintings ever done in the U.S. A garrulous little man with a long, bony face, Sloan married twice, worked six hours a day until shortly before his death, once summed up his long career: "Though a living cannot...
...McSorley's "own kind," the Irish, and Hollywood, which is currently underwriting a Celtic Renaissance, will probably...