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...musicians and writers, the more dynamic political leaders, while we had the obviously inferior merit of "getting better grades?" We, accepting even the humor of male-dominated Harvard society, laughed at the Radcliffe grindiness guarded a secret contempt for our sisters who were insecure enough to work hard, and strove to be part of male society...
...share of trendy superficiality. Sometimes the discussions are so earthy that the name of God hardly comes up. But the movement also has produced at least one substantial event: the recent conference in the School of Theology at Claremont, Calif., at which 20 scholars, including Fisher and DeWolf, strove to promulgate "a theology of survival." One of the papers delivered there-by Claremont Theologian John B. Cobb Jr., originator of the conference-amounts to the most cogent statement yet of where philosophical and religious thought has gone wrong in abetting bad ecological practices...
Manufacturers who strove for years to take noise out of their products are now engineering it back in. Sperry Rand announced an especially quiet Remington electric typewriter, only to find that secretaries complained that the new model was slow and stiff. In fact, the quiet model was at least as fast and workable. Without the old hum, however, typists had the impression that they were working less briskly. Hoover Co. had the same experience. Their engineers perfected an almost whooshless vacuum cleaner that promised to be a smashing success. But housewives, who associate noise with power, assumed that...
...musicians and writers, the more dynamic political leaders, while we had the obviously inferior merit of "getting better grades?" We, accepting even the humor of male-dominated Harvard society, laughed at the Radcliffe grindiness, guarded a secret contempt for our sisters who were insecure enough to work hard, and strove to be part of male society...
...autobiography This Life I Have Lived, she explained that all her life she wanted to do things better than anyone else. She liked to win, and, to insure success, she trained hard for whatever contest she entered. But it was not only in sports that Babe Zaharias strove to excel. While in school, she had to make a dress in sewing class and determined it should be the best. Her dress was the winner of the State Fair of Texas. She also won a gold medal in school for the best speed in typing...