Word: subjectity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Women and Love, Hite's latest salvo in the battle of the sexes -- and the subject of this week's cover story -- sparked some skirmishes in the corridors of TIME. Many staff members who worked on the story were moved to conduct personal surveys on the state of male-female relationships. "It felt more like a national group-therapy session than a workweek," says Chicago Correspondent Elizabeth Taylor. Hite's basic conclusion, that women are profoundly dissatisfied in their dealings with men, was hotly debated. "Some people say her questions are rigged," notes Reporter-Researcher Jeannie Park...
...value. The sample is highly self-selected, she says (indeed, only 4.5% of the 100,000 questionnaires mailed were returned), and probably reflects a disproportion of malcontents. "Unhappy people are more willing to answer these questions than happy people," says Reinisch. Others object to the vagueness of Hite's subject matter and the questions she asks...
Indeed, the world according to Hite is just that, a subjective view. In her report, Hite makes no pretense of maintaining the distance from her subject matter customarily expected of a social scientist. Describing the radical feminist outcry against marriage, for example -- "exploitation of women financially, physically, sexually and emotionally" -- she does not hesitate to add her opinion that it is "just and accurate." Hite's analysis is colored by her entrenched view that today's men and women are incapable of getting through to one another, that most men are treacherous troglodytes and women are socially conditioned to serve...
Indeed, Soviet-American relations have become a hot subject on U.S. campuses. Charitable organizations, including the Rockefeller and Carnegie foundations, along with Congress, have contributed more than $20 million in the past four years to help underwrite university programs. Classroom study of current events from Soviet TV, beamed in via satellite, has become popular since Columbia started the practice in 1984. One reason for the scholarly surge: the warming climate of glasnost created by Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. But interest in Soviet studies has gained momentum steadily since the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the renewed tensions between...
Summing up the damage, Robert Farmer, Dukakis' campaign treasurer, asserts, "We've taken a body blow, but we're going to make sure the campaign is a success." Perhaps. Campaigning across Iowa Friday, Dukakis brought up the subject voluntarily at almost every stop, portraying himself as a man who had taken painful but decisive action to maintain his integrity. Many voters seemed forgiving. But in New Hampshire, where he has been leading, a quick poll showed a 10% drop in the number of voters who view him favorably...