Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from rigid sexual stereotyping. No use trying to pin the blame on some anonymous entity called "the system" which makes both sexes squirm unhappily--not even if the system turns to be none other than that ogre capitalism. After all, Marxist theory may say one thing, but in practice socialist countries still uphold the nuclear family and discriminate against women. Every man--socialist or capitalist--is a sexist oppressor, a supporter of patriarchy, and even the most self-righteously "liberated" male is probably just using his so-called "raised consciousness" as a weapon for sexual conquest...
...their Nobel Prizes for Literature. The peace award to Sakharov was even more objectionable to the Soviet leaders. Sakharov is still the U.S.S.R.'s most famous scientist and a Stalin prizewinner who was decorated three times with the nation's highest civilian award as a Hero of Socialist Labor. Nevertheless, his eloquent critique of Soviet oppression has cut even deeper than the condemnations of Solzhenitsyn. Twenty-four hours after the announcement of the award in Oslo, the Soviet news agency Tass blasted the Nobel committee for "political speculation" with peace prizes and branded Sakharov an "anti-patriot...
ITALIAN DIRECTOR Lina Wertmuller's latest film has produced a paradoxical spectacle. Wertmuller, director of Love and Anarchy and The Seduction of Mimi, is a self-proclaimed socialist and "75 percent feminist". By all accounts she is also the most accomplished and exciting contemporary woman filmmaker. Yet Swept Away has been thoroughly damned as sexist by feminist critics, while apolitical middle class hordes line up around the block on New York's East Side to see the film hailed by Vincent Canby as the greatest romantic comedy of the seventies, a chic version of The Way We Were...
...with his wife and children and hopes that the country will still be there when he gets up in the morning. The most popular rallying cry of last week's many demonstrations was one that was chanted by 40,000 Portuguese at a pro-government demonstration organized by Socialist Party Leader Mário Scares: "Discipline! Discipline! Discipline!" As yet. unfortunately, the Pinheiro de Azevedo regime has not shown that it can fulfill that mandate...
Died. Guy Mollet, 69, Socialist Premier of France from January 1956 to June 1957; following a heart attack; in Paris. In 1956, Mollet collaborated with Britain's Prime Minister Anthony Eden in the British-French attack on the Suez Canal in coordination with an Israeli invasion of the Sinai from the east...