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...will probably have only one child. One thing is certain. She will go at fertility, pregnancy, delivery and infant care with an aggressive elan. She will not become pregnant at the whim of the tides, but when she can clear her agenda. Says Richard Levinson, an Emory University sociologist in Atlanta: "Women in this age and economic stratum are saying, 'If I'm going to do this at my age, then I'm going to do it in style...
Mubarak has dealt firmly with the country's Moslem militants without seeming to be vengeful. Like Sadat, he says he will not permit religious-based political parties. But Sociologist Saad Eddin Ibrahim of the American University in Cairo observes, "He is not doing things that antagonize the militants. He gives an image of being clean, firm and fair." The fundamentalists, in fact, approve of Mubarak's campaign against corruption, his proposal to curb luxury imports, and his studiously private family life. "Some of the militants think he is redeemable and that they can establish a dialogue with...
...reason seems to be that so much concentration is poured into work and marriage that little time, or energy, is left over. The commuters, say researchers, single-mindedly await the day when they can become ordinary one-city folk again."They are functioning on 'deferred gratification,' " says Sociologist Sussman. They are, in other words, the new troops of the Protestant ethic, enduring hardship now for the sake of better days ahead. - By John Leo. Reported by Maureen Dowd/ Washington and Nancy Pierce Williamson/New York, with other bureaus
...support systems-from how to balance the family checkbook, to finding a new doctor or dentist, to simply lugging the family silver back and forth to have it on hand for dinner parties in both cities. Says Harriet Engel Gross of Governors State University, one of the sociologists who study commuter marriages: "The decision to live apart produces a life-style that is difficult at best, endured in the service of career or other goals, but not one endorsed enthusiastically." The typical commuter, researchers say, is very serious about marriage, feels guilty about separations and lives under fairly heavy stress...
...that no woman wearing them can outrun a man who is chasing her." On edible underwear: "If clothes were words, these would be like talking with your mouth full." Such insights are the constructs of fiction rather than the battlements of feminism. Lurie, after all, is neither psychologist nor sociologist; she remains a novelist...