Word: trend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite retreats like the Republic's, the trend seems clearly in the other direction. As Washington Post Columnist Nicholas von Hoffman sees it: "The women's section is the part of the paper that isn't tied to inherited ideas of what an event is"; it is attracting a number of good new journalists, both men and women. Von Hoffman himself specially requested that his own freewheeling column run in the "Style" section of the Post, as did Humorist Art Buchwald. Said Von Hoffman: "People read the women's page far oftener than the editorial page...
Though that may be the trend, it is true so far only in relatively few cases. The secretary's role is clearly changing, but not fast enough for many young women. So many of them refuse to take that important and indispensable job that, despite the nation's high unemployment rate, there is an acute shortage of secretaries...
...difficult to get an abortion in Arkansas than in Kansas, though both follow the A.L.I, model. Courts in three more states-Florida. Vermont and New Jersey-have in recent weeks knocked down restrictive laws. How free abortion will now become in these three states is still unclear, but the trend toward individual choice is certain...
...women directors, but in the Hollywood scheme of things a woman director is still an oddity. Dorothy Arzner started making pictures in the 1930s (Craig's Wife, The Bride Wore Red), as did Ida Lupino in the 1950s (The Hitch-Hiker, The Bigamist), but they hardly began a trend. Stage and TV Director Francine Parker, a spokeswoman of the two-year-old Film Committee of Women for Equality in Media, charges that in movies, "if anyone has to choose between you and a man, any man, it will always be the man. You just don't look right...
...never before, female biology and sexuality are being used as raw material for fiction. The trend did not appear overnight. Among the lonely precursors of the new irate accent in fiction was Christina Stead...