Word: unisex
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...After ten pages of a book, my eyes close. I can't even read the newspaper. I don't feel at ease with American women. They're too perfect; their paradise of honesty doesn't excite me a bit. It's good only for unisex." Mastroianni is equally hard on Italian men: "We bore women with our insistence, our enthusiasm, our generosity. Except we get exhausted very soon...
...regime has raised wages an average 17% since the Cultural Revolution, but now mining and railway workers are agitating for even more. Last month postal workers in Canton appealed, unsuccessfully, for higher pay. Money is not the only sugar-coated bullet either. Mao favors those good gray (or blue) unisex styles, but rare is the young Chinese girl who does not have a fancy embroidered-silk jacket or a flowered dress tucked away somewhere. Sex is supposed to follow marriage but, as a Swede who frequently visits China pointed out, "If you walk around in the parks in the summer...
...your Business section, you ran pictures of our lovely stewardesses [Feb. 8], who definitely are unisex-all female. However, the young lady with the long skirt is modeling our later '40s attire, not our new 1971 field flowers collection...
American has cut the 4? cost of laundering each washroom towel by switching from cloth to paper. By eliminating the more expensive blue cloth towels and going to all white, Eastern is saving $10,000 a year. The line has also adopted a unisex philosophy in passing out toy pins: formerly the wings given to girls were marked "Stewardess" and those given to boys were stamped "Pilot." Now they say "Eastern Air Lines." Savings: $9,000 a year...
...does it all matter? Because, Winick explains, until people have acquired what psychiatrists call sexual identity, and until they recognize the reality of their sex, they cannot accept or cope with other realities. Says Winick: "America's survival potential may be substantially undercut if unisex continues because it will impair our ability to adapt to new situations...