Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...separate sphere, located in the Quad, which affects only those who choose to belong to Radcliffe groups. Harvard has a dual responsibility: one, to prove its committment to the women it has admitted by sponsoring services for them; and two, to pull in women alongside men--to teach, to speak and to show that they can be equally successful. If Radcliffe is responsible for the first duty, it is unlikely Harvard will take the second very seriously...
...envy her," says Rimma Raude, 37, an economist who emigrated from Kharkov to the U.S. a year ago. Mrs. Gorbachev's life-style serves both to highlight and deepen women's dissatisfaction, even as the rising expectations spawned by glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) have emboldened some women to speak out about their problems...
...Western eyes, the lot of a Soviet woman may seem outrageously unfair. Yet Soviet women find Western attitudes toward marriage and family alien, if not laughable. "Your ideas of independence are a luxury," says Tanya, the English teacher. A small minority speak longingly of organized action to press for women's rights but are afraid that officials would crack down on any such effort. Most, however, are too overwhelmed by the hardships of day-to-day living to squander energy on political and personal issues that for more than two decades have enlivened Western debate about the woman's role...
...refusenik daughter, and she has learned to be wary. She has been studying English privately since she was three, and tosses off expressions like "Come on, Mom" with the exasperated sighs of an American youngster. Yet she has never let her teachers at school know that she can speak English and studies Latin: they might become suspicious and incite their students to harass...
...Secretary of Defense. Carlucci squeaked by, 91 to 1. A month later, Helms opposed a major education bill, arguing that the Federal Government should not fund education. The bill passed 97 to 1. "I sometimes find myself wishing there were more people on my side who were willing to speak up," he says...