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...very convenient for people to blame feminism for the low status housewives have and feel, but the phrase "just a housewife" was not invented by women's liberation-it has been in use for a long time. Many men want their wives to stay home and then resent them for doing...
...toolmakers, a craftsmanly elite among auto workers, earn an average $110 a week. The pay is higher than for most assembly-line laborers, but the differential has eroded under 20 months of Phase 1 and Phase 2 government wage control. As a small minority in the A.U.E.W., the toolmakers resent the union leadership and want to negotiate with Leyland directly. Skilled workers elsewhere rallied to their support. Some 400 Rolls-Royce toolmakers staged a one-day sympathy strike...
...though Ms. Rosenthal admits that "Wilson has nothing explicitly to say about race in his book," she nevertheless proceeds to compare the book with the Ku Klux Klan, the "unjust war in Indochina," "South Africa's U.S.-backed white minority," and the Nazi's "genocide against the Jews." We resent these atrocious attempts to inflame the readers' gut-level passions, rather than present any logical foundations for intelligent objections to Professor Wilson's book. That, not the reasoned inquiry Ms. Rosenthal so stridently vilifies, is the essence of unscientific tripe...
...bones of their Afro-American heritage. "We all knew what slavery was, by hearsay and by family tradition," noted Boston Journalist Robert Jordan. "But this put all those feelings in living color where you've got to believe them." Said Little Rock Teacher Charles Pruitt: "The black kids resent what has happened and say, 'They couldn't do it to me like that,' but the white kids say, 'But look, I'm not like that...
Unrest among ordinary Chinese may prove harder for Hua to deal with. Mass dissatisfaction, held in check under Mao, was unleashed following his death. Workers are unhappy over low wages, effectively frozen since 1971. There is widespread resentment about intrusive authority, misuse of power by local officials and party demands for constant indoctrination sessions. Existing poverty has been exacerbated by the rising expectations that are encouraged by the Chinese leaders, who talk constantly about the splendid present and the glowing future. Young Chinese resent the practice of being sent from the cities to the countryside to learn the virtues...