Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...female activism throughout history. Most discussions of women's history equate women's struggles for equality with the suffrage movement which lasted from the Seneca Falls Conference of 1848 until the ratification of the 1920 constitutional amendment giving women the vote. This movement of predominantly white, middle and upper class reformers in the only movement of women given any credence in history books. But what of the effect of the suffragette movement on black women, who could not vote, not only because they were women, but because they were black? What of the Chinese women working as cheap imported labor...
...their lives. These women are atypical, as they have achieved a high level of literacy, possessed leisure time, believed that their lives were worth recording, and grew up in families that valued their writings enough to preserve them. This handful of women, almost exclusively white and middle or upper class, were acknowledged for achieving male-defined successes; these women achieved status as political leaders, doctors, and queens...
...income tax rebate for millions of Americans. Instead of tax cuts, labor wants more Government spending to create jobs. Said Meany, who never lets his own $90,000 salary deter him from hurling a good, populist line: "I don't see why people in the upper brackets should get $50 that they can flip at the first headwaiter they...
...railroader busies himself with refurbishing the Limbo Line, a rickety train that runs from the First to the Fourth Circle of Hell - home of the avaricious. He is swiftly drawn into infernal politics. Cleopatra, the Second Circle's reigning queen, wants to rule all upper hell. Sister Martha, a heavenly busybody who wants to liberate souls from Limbo, will not hear of this. Satan, naturally, is enraged by Cleopatra's ambition...
AMONG THE RICH and would-be wealthy (who really are not used to this kind of thing, you know) there are some near headaches. As Lady Beatrice, Bonnie Landers lacks sufficient crustiness for a member of England's upper class. Landers, who like most of the rest of the cast has a good voice, repeatedly changes her character and looks as if she is surprised to be there every time she walks on stage. As an actress, Meredith Birdsall as Julia, the overprotected daughter who "could live 20 more years and still not be a normal girl...