Word: motherhood
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...Brill qualifies as a case of vanishing American manhood mainly by shooting ducks, going on 80-hour drunks, and snarling boozily at Progressgas pipelines and defoliating chemicals. At the same time he sheds 90-proof tears for the Old Verities: small farms, unpolluted streams and 19th century motherhood. Finally, he takes off for Mexico with a girl who can "turn herself from earth to ether and back again...
...surprised. We have been trying to convince the Harvard community that a significant portion of the Harvard Administration shares Dean von Stade's view of educated women. That is to say, that we are "dull" and incapable of significant contributions to scholarship or to society, and that motherhood and intellectual functioning are mutually exclusive. On the basis of these beliefs the administration seems to conclude that Harvard should continue to maintain discriminatory practices against women. It is these very practices which have in the past excluded women from an active life outside the home...
...want to put it coldly and logistically (but without any factual study), I am persuaded that the relative contributions to our society, in any area you wish to name (except motherhood), would be vastly more in favor of the males than the present proportional representation of 3 to 1 of Harvard vs Radcliffe...
...single nay vote. The key target was automotive exhaust, the nation's chief air pollutant. But even Michigan's Robert Griffin, a staunch supporter of the auto industry, voiced only nominal protest and then voted for the bill. "Congratulations," said one Senator. "You've just gotten motherhood through...
...Losing their home in Reno, he moved his wife and child to Silver Wells, Nevada, there built a motel "that would have been advantageously situated at a freeway exit had the freeway been built." Maria grows up, in turn loses, in Los Angeles, in Vegas, in marriage and at motherhood. Ends up in Neuropsychiatric. "I was raised to believe that what came in on the next roll would always be better than what went out on the last. I no longer believe that...