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...Soul." So proclaims the cover of the latest issue of Encore, the black newsmagazine. Inside, an essay by Psychologist Rose Finkenstaedt condemns the feminist movement as "little more than the hysterical exhibitionism of spoiled children." To blacks, adds Editor-Publisher Ida Lewis, Women's Lib is merely "a playtoy for middle-class white women." At first reading, Encore's broadside sounds too extreme to reflect the outlook of more than a few blacks. But in interviews with TIME correspondents across the nation last week, many black women agreed with the magazine's stand. Although black women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Blacks v. Feminists | 3/26/1973 | See Source »

Keynesian economics, for many years a dirty word in the Republican Party's rhetoric, has been accepted by the Administration more as a playtoy than an effective method of economic management. Fiscal policy planning is an awesome thing, something to be handled gingerly lest it dull all sensibility and impose itself on the player's mind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Economy: II | 2/21/1958 | See Source »

...possesses the atomic bomb. Serenely, they overlook the millions who scarcely touch their beds as they labor night and day to reduce the margin of military supremacy now possessed by this country. Nor will many men anywhere sleep soundly so long as this greatest of all weapons is a playtoy of national sovereignty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quo Vadimus? | 4/13/1946 | See Source »

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