Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...woman is discussing business with a male colleague over lunch at an expensive Italian restaurant. She invited him. When the check comes...
...wife are excised from The Green Book by the register's mistress, Jean Shaw Murray, daughter of the late Carolyn Hagner Shaw, who presided over it for 34 years. Carolyn Hagner Shaw was a subtle and funny arbiter who could savor the preposterous in Washington's manners. Once a woman addressed an urgent query to her: Could she, the woman asked, fulfill her deceased husband's wishes and bury him in his white...
...emotionally invalid or, at last, hopelessly and rather touchingly quaint. The women's movement called a world of once reflexive rituals into doubt. The masculine urge to rise when a woman entered the room seemed a sort of humiliating impulse, uncontrollable, incontinent. A man seated on the downtown bus might endure agonies of self-examination before offering his seat to a woman. The male had to learn to size up the female by age, education and possible ferocity of feminism before opening a door for her: Would the courtesy offend her? It made for ambiguity: If a man studiously refuses...
...husband and two ex-husbands of the bride's mother at the wedding banquet? How to invite a homosexual couple for the weekend? There were few rules that applied to other new customs, such as living in coed dorms, coed jogging (should the man speed ahead of the woman?) and social soaking in hot tubs (keep eye contact at all times...
...Generally Baldrige gives unmarried couples living together sympathetic though somewhat chilly treatment: "If they are breaking a moral law, it is their business and no one else's ... It has become ... a way of life. We must therefore cope with it as such." Baldrige hardheadedly notes that a single woman living with a man should find a good gynecologist to supply birth control devices and "a good lawyer to protect her rights...