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What is true, however, is that most female artists, like most male ones, are not very talented and live ill-known in a catastrophically overcrowded art world. Thus it is easy for Ms. Anybody, M.F.A., to blame the obscurity of her work on sexist machinations against her as a member of a class and plangently call for redress in quotas and affirmative action. Hence the National Museum of Women in the Arts, a grimly sentimental waste of money, an idea whose time is gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: How To Start a Museum | 8/10/1987 | See Source »

...have a long way to go," says Rose Bird, former chief justice of the California Supreme Court. "It's part of our heritage to rectify past injustices, and the Constitution is no exception." Without an ERA, some feminists argue, the American charter will continue to bear the sexist imprint of a document written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Those 24 Words Are Back | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

...capital D. Big Bad Beelzebub. But devilry in New England is not what it used to be. Women suspected of having sex with Satan are not burned at the stake; they are snubbed in the check-out line. And in an age when even witches are feminists, a sexist like Daryl doesn't stand a chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Could It Be . . . Satan? THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK | 6/22/1987 | See Source »

...have found many Southerners to be anti-intellectual, unchallenging, sexist and racist. I have struggled to feel comfortable with a society where racists threatened to blow up my grandparents' home because my grandfather helped desegregate the state university in the 1960s. I have struggled to accept a society where intelligent, aggressive women subvert their ambition and fire to be attractive to the men around them. I have struggled to cope with the fact that most of my high school classmates went on to perfectly good schools, joined perfectly good fraternities and sororities and are well on their way to alcoholism...

Author: By Victoria G.T. Bassetti, | Title: Southern Shadows | 6/10/1987 | See Source »

...Knowing the people who were on the committee,it is outrageous to accuse any of them of racistor sexist attitudes. The process was fully openand fair," said Pforzheimer University ProfessorSidney Verba '53, who chaired the searchcommittee...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Spence Says Dean Search Was Fair | 6/9/1987 | See Source »

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