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...quest for sexual enlightenmnet--a counter-mythology. Her statements are for the most part purely speculative and overtly feminist, and they contribute only to prolonging, rather than resolving, a tedious battle of the sexes. In the effort to proceed from sexual politics and polemics to knowledge, Sherfey's tack is a dead...
...silver-haired Sullivan has been Kissinger's chief political adviser throughout the long cease-fire negotiations. While Kissinger was talking to North Viet Nam's top emissary, Le Due Tho, Sullivan was working 18-hour days at the "tandem negotiations" that tack led the technical details of the cease fire, such as the logistical arrangements for the release of war prisoners and the machinery for supervising the truce...
Minos Volonakis has taken another tack. He views Medea as a social tragedy in which the heroine is victimized as a racial alien and violated as a woman simply because she is a woman. Greece's Irene Papas, who has often played aggrieved and grieving women (Z, Electra, Iphigenia in Aulis), brings to the role a controlled intensity, an innate intelligence, and an implacably stubborn anger. To humanize the part, however, is to make it somewhat less than awesome in its sweeping horror. The paradox remains that the Greek playwrights gave us a gallery of women who bewail their...
Restic's major problem this afternoon will be containing the Yale ground at tack. The Eli rushing totals lead the league averaging over 300 yards a game in eight contests...
...other benefits. Such a directive was carefully included in legislation, introduced early this congressional session, that would have raised Social Security payments 5%. But when Senators and Congressmen decided to boost the increase to 20%, they voted the change as an amendment to another bill, and forgot to tack on the directive...