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Another problem is the hostility of women. Secure and happy in their traditional roles, many reject any drastic change in their status. They also resent what they regard as a kind of propaganda designed to either force them into more active lives or make them feel guilty about staying home. But the organized female resistance to the movement has been largely frivolous: MOM (for Men Our Masters), started by a Manhattan secretary, and its men's auxiliary WOW (for Women Our Wonders); and the Pussycat League, with its slogan "The lamb chop is mightier than the karate chop." More...
...Some criticism of the Conservative Cabinet's only female member centers on her genteel mannerisms-her Establishment tweeds and her cool, monotonous voice. "I've had everything thrown at me," she protests. "I'm too soft; I'm too hard. I think people really do resent it when you know the answers...
...they harbored any pro- or anti-war sentiment strong enough to make them incapable of rendering a just decision (see box). He later irked the defense by ordering that the jury, after selection, be sequestered; the defendants claim that juries locked away from their families for months tend to resent the defendants and consequently hand down more severe verdicts...
...deserted her, and she'll get money from the city, but I couldn't swallow my pride that way. My wife says she tried to say it, just to herself, and she broke down and cried." All the same, the mountaineers don't want pity and resent "the liberal types" who "love having a man like me to feel sorry for." In the end, they suffer?or go home, like the mountaineer who left Cleveland for his beloved McVeigh, Ky., explaining that he'd "sooner die hungry than spend his last few years in the places where the mountains...
...listens. But Coles, as always, did listen. One thing he heard was angry criticism of "the radicals," "the peace crowd" who "don't really love this country," "the snob-students" and "the professors, the big-brain types who look down on the rest of us." The Middle Americans resent being scorned: "I'm as much of a person as anybody, even if I don't talk a lot of big words...