Word: nationalized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more. Today the angels are in rebellion. Better educated, stirred by the feminist movement and caught up in the medical advances of the past generation, most of the nation's 1 million registered nurses are no longer content to be self-effacing Florence Nightingales. They are demanding better pay (current average: $13,000 a year), a stronger voice in patient care and, above all, freedom from what they consider the dominating attitude of doctors. Says Connie Curran, associate dean of nursing at the University of San Francisco: "Nurses are refusing to do the cleaning up after physicians; they...
...sharply (from 67,000 to 194,000 in the past decade) that more than half of traditional training programs have shut down for lack of students and money. One likely casualty: the 106-year-old diploma-nursing program at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital, one of the nation's oldest...
Organized by a group called Women Against Pornography, this unlikely female sortie is only one tactic in a new feminist cause: an all-out war against pornography. The rationale is that pornography is a significant factor in the nation's disturbing rate of sexual violence against women and children. One of the movement's organizers and a leader of the weekly Manhattan tours is Susan Brownmiller, author of Against Our Will, which contends that rape is a social and political instrument to oppress women. Adds Psychologist Phyllis Chesler: "For years women have been reluctant to speak out against...
...parks and markets, along waterfronts and under arcades. The groups have antic names like the Tarmac Trio, Three-Part Invention and Dynamic Logs. Mimes, jugglers and fire-eaters often join in the act. Not far behind them come the hot-dog vendors and balloon men. The minstrels provide the nation's most colorful, if casual, summer musical diversions...
...impossible not to wonder why the nation has got caught up in such a welter of war lore. True, some keen public curiosity needs no special explanation. After all, most Americans now over age 34 experienced the war in civvies if not in uniform: the war is their own story. There are, however, some other specific reasons for the new intensity of interest...