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PERHAPS because the making of the Women's Movement was in the middle class--maybe good, maybe bad--the most vocal of the lot are most always middle class. But why are these most vocal women most always New Yorkers? From Steinem to Millet to Firestone; it's a checklist of New Yorkers. Now as far as anybody knows, the women problem is no worse in New York than anywhere else; neither is the movement, which has gone moreorless grassroots, headquartered there. Maybe the brains of the revolution have cached a reserve army underground in the city? Maybe to survive...
...Times have changed. It is time that TIME changed. Instead of Man of the Year, I suggest you use Person of the Year. I nominate Gloria Steinem...
Succumbing to the Ten Best syndrome, Feminist Gloria Steinem totted up her list of liberated men for Today's Health magazine. Her choices: the late Senator Robert Kennedy (he listened to women), Economist John Kenneth Galbraith (he changed his mind about women), Crusader Ralph Nader (he is interested in issues regardless of their progenitors' gender), Congresswoman Bella's husband Martin Abzug (he is supportive), Athlete Rafer Johnson (he is gentle). There were also the farm workers' Cesar Chavez (for his belief in nonviolence), Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme (he said if there is hope for peace...
...presumed to be prostitutes, Danner gets herself arrested. At her trial the next day, the barely mussed carefully made-up liberated lady is so stupefied by her night in jail that she is unable to open her mouth, whereupon hubby gallantly wins the case for her. Sic transit Gloria Steinem...
...display of one man's ability to exploit the times. Whether Bobby Riggs is one of history's greatest hustlers conning the world or just a fortunate zany defies a quick answer. He is probably a bit of both. For a guy who would not know Gloria Steinem if she tap-danced across his chest in spike heels, he has gone a long way with sexism. But a true hustler does not depend on luck, and Riggs was awfully lucky to fall into the right game at the right time. Five years ago these superheated matches could...