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...main reason that feminism failed was its belated discovery of the fact that women need men and motherhood. Mary Bunting, who would shudder at comparison with Susan B. Anthony, stands first of all for the family. She proposes no all-front feminine attack on the business and professional fields of men. But in a society of early marriage, lightened housework and lengthened lives, she does deplore women who abdicate their obligation to put their brains and education to creative use. Marriage, motherhood, the fledging of children and possibly widowhood subject a woman's life to stressful changes...
...panic engendered by a collision with an iceberg would destroy all vestiges of civilized human behavior. We shudder at the vision of one man shooting another for the possession of a "life" boat...
...fields raking hay. But like the suicide attempt, which ends up cutting a tendon instead of the jugular vein, the movie is rather anti-climactic, despite the imitation-Hollywood splendor. No one is surprised when the peasants decide that Marx was right. No one is shocked, though many shudder, when the male lead struggles home to a hero's welcome after the wars...
Rubber Stamp. Designed to please everyone down on the farm, the bill has pleased hardly anyone on Capitol Hill. Legislators shudder at the prospect of a farmers' free-for-all as each group fights for the best deal it can get. Many big-city Democratic Congressmen want nothing to do with legislation that fattens the farmer -at the expense of the consumer. But what really irks both parties in both chambers is the fact that the bill takes away from Congress the power to write farm legislation and gives it to the farmers and Agriculture Secretary Freeman. Under...
...news sent a shudder of horror through India. Indian newspapers called it "a calamity." What outraged them was that 200 cows living in a large rest home maintained by Punjab state died last week of malnutrition and exposure. Two M.P.s of the right-wing, ultra Hindu Jana Sangh Party related the horrible details: a thousand cattle had been crowded together at Mattewara in flimsy bamboo sheds, sinking in mud and dung until they keeled over to provide grisly feasts for vultures and jackals. Mightily embarrassed, the state government sent its director of animal husbandry flying from Chandigarh to move...