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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although Benedictine monks were celibate, they took no vow of chastity. Rather, the remoteness of the typical monastery, and the vow the monks took never to leave it, settled the issue. However the monastery in Cambridge is surrounded by a sea of women, some of whom visit the monastery frequently for services and other religious purposes. The permanent vow of chastity that SSJE members take is thus their most serious commitment to their faith and their fellows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Island of Tranquility On Memorial Drive: The Anglican Monastery | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...towns exists in many countries; there is a big difference between Chevy Chase and Washington's inner city, too. But elsewhere it is not enforced by law, and elsewhere, the affluent society would have some awareness of how the other three-quarters live. Whites need a special permit to visit black townships, for instance, just as blacks need passes to go into white areas. And elsewhere, the system is not so all-inclusive; in South Africa, even black education is designed to produce servants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Life in South Africa: An Outsider Goes Inside | 11/18/1978 | See Source »

Germany's distinguished novelist Günter Grass a male chauvinist? One of the biggest, says a German women's group, who named him M.C. of the Month for his new book, an epic about a sexist talking fish. During a visit to Atlanta, where he read passages from The Flounder, Grass naturally had some talking to do. "The women's lib movement," he said, "has a lot of women who want to use power like men. We have enough stupid men who use power." Grass also had some criticisms about American writers, who, he claims, have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 13, 1978 | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...good health are told they have suspicious smears, after which a biopsy is often recommended. To Foltz and Kelsey, such statistics at the very least indicate that the Pap test is being overused at considerable expense to the public; the cost of mass annual screening, including office visit charges for women seeing their gynecologists solely for the annual test, runs in the millions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Flap about Pap | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

This year--close to the 50th anniversary of Baker's exodus--his ghost has returned to visit the old haunt, in the form of Robert S. Brustein, dean of the Yale School of Drama and director of the Yale Repertory Theater...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Act I, Scene ii | 11/10/1978 | See Source »

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