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...Search for a Sixpence," Thursday, Nov. 12, acquaints me with two rather startling ideas. First, it would appear that Radcliffe girls, I hesitate to say the Radcliffe girl for fear of becoming entangled in the attendant complexities of flavor, "laugh at the housewife," considering her role "a series of menial chores which society tries to impose" upon her. Come, come, now, surely so many cannot be so saturated with careerist propaganda. Do most Radcliffe students really scorn husband and hearth? I shall not resort to the statistics on Harvard-Radcliffe marriages. Surely we, the paragons of the cranially ovoid female...
...would Radcliffe students laugh at her? Because they laugh at the housewife. Many consider this a role they must fight, a series of menial chores which society tries to impose on them...
...dormitory proudly announced to the incoming freshmen, "The college has taken care of most of the things which could interfere with your studying." She forgot, however, that four years in such an atmosphere can well perpetuate the attitude underlying her own words: managing a house involves a number of menial details, all of which interfere with the really important things in life...
Open Hostility. But Oswald was not satisfied with his menial state in life, and 18 months after his defection he decided he wanted to go home. Says the Warren Commission: "His attempt to renounce his citizenship had been an open expression of hostility against the U.S. and a profound rejection of his early life. The dramatic break with society in America now had to be undone. His return to the U.S. publicly testified to the utter failure of what had been the most important act of his life...
Stendhal called on the apostle, St. Paul, for a definition of a "reasonable service" to mankind. "Prestige is for those who have too little to do," Stendhal said. "There are no menial tasks and no prestige jobs for him who uses his gifts instead of framing his diploma on a wall...