Word: musts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HERMAN'S HAT, by George Mendoza, illustrated by Frank Bozzo (Doubleday; $4.50). When the clown gave Herman his big black hat he warned: "Once you place it on your head you must never take it off or else everyone will know what you are thinking." And Herman, naturally, is thinking all sorts of unimaginable things. Glowing illustrations heavily influenced by Marc Chagall...
...glow with pride when addressed by an unfamiliar term that was tacked on much like a cattle brand to accommodate a society that still regards women as possessions. Nor can I delight in the inconvenience and expense caused when driver's license, bank accounts, stocks and legal records must be rewritten to match a new legal label. Most cutting of all is the prevalent attitude that marriage has automatically disqualified me from any intelligent conversation and that baby making and dishwashing can be my only destiny. Surely there must be a less humbling method for the liberated female...
...Admittedly, some women use the men in their lives as an excuse not to do what they really are too lazy to do anyway -use their brains. It must be laziness and not stupidity (as most men evidently assume) that keeps them out of the job market. The fact that about 95% of the working-age men in this country have jobs shows that stupidity is no obstacle to employment...
...like reporting that makes a Horatio Alger success story out of what must have been a satisfactory democratic experience in which many persons acted responsibly and in which the people...
Those of us who are serious about making a new life must realize that we have to begin acting sometime. If we don't start being joyous and peaceful in the holiday season, when we are supposed to be that way, when will we start...