Word: motherhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...really think we believe in apple pie and motherhood." I said quite seriously. The pretty Cliffic next to me smiled...
...sewer tax rates in the country," says Stefanski. "I figured we'd double the rates to amortize our bonds." To persuade the people to pay, Stefanski enlisted newspaper support, lined up citizen groups and got 33 suburban governments to endorse the plan. "It became like apple pie and motherhood," he recalls. "No one could be against clean water." Last fall Clevelanders approved the bond issue by a vote of 2 to 1, giving it more "yes" votes than any other proposal on the ballot. In five years, Cleveland should have the best sewage system in the U.S., one capable...
...they can lose if they are ambitious, because many practical obstacles may prevent their careers. The society that considers marriage and motherhood sufficient goals for women can, and does, discriminate against them as students and careerists without feeling guilty. Although this country has one of the highest proportions of working women in the world, it falls far behind European countries in its postgraduate training of women, and in its acceptance of women in the professions. In graduate schools, men are notably preferred. Jobs that lead to promotion almost invariably fall...
...stand for what the Constitution stands for, which is everyone equal under the law." He advised the crowd: "Sit out this election." As if anticipating what Muskie would say, he declared: "You are going to hear a lot of stuff, a lot of platitudes, about apple pie and motherhood. That's fine. But does it bring any sort of qualitative change? No!" Yet later, as Muskie praised American youth for "jogging our institutions," Brody nodded up at him and said to a bystander: "If they would do this more often, there wouldn't be all the really radical...
HOUSE COURSES have been the Harvard equivalent of motherhood and apple pie. Everyone knows that hordes of students apply to get into them and that tutors teach them with religious enthusiasm. And to those who complain that the lecture system is impersonal and often ineffective, administrators can hold up house courses as evidence that Harvard is, after all, a progressive institution academically...