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Most of the books exhibited, taken straight from the shelves of Lamont, were apparently chosen to justify the library's ban on women. The Useless Sex. The Anti-Sex. The Subjection of Women, and All Women are Fatal are prominently displayed. One of the cases contains on edition of Pierre de Bourdeille's. The Lives of Gallant Ladies, suggestively opened to "Fourth Essay--On Married Women, Widows and Girls to ascertain which class of them is botter in love than the others...
Comparisons have a limited tensile strength. The more they are drawn the weaker they get, until eventually they snap and become useless...
Raises All Around. The only man who dared to flag down the railroads was ousted President Arturo Frondizi, who fired 40,000 useless workers in 1961. But the powerful 234,000-man railroad unions struck for 42 days until Frondizi called off his reforms and granted 30% raises all around...
...Enough? Unfortunately, even the best battered-child laws are useless if doctors' reports are not effectively followed up. The American Humane Association's Vincent De Francis thus questions the idea of reporting to the police. "This means viewing the case in terms of possible prosecution of the parent," says De Francis. But parental guilt is often impossible to prove, and the very threat of punishment may deter parents from getting medical help. As Mrs. DeHinger puts it: "The Children's Bureau does not want to put brutal parents in jail so much as to save the child...
...writing on a subject that interests nobody in a book that nobody will read, the candidate approaches his task with repugnance and he fulfills it often with loathing." But having suffered to earn his doctorate, the aspiring scholar must then publish or perish, thereby swelling the torrent of useless words...