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...Yale offers only occasional insight into the problems it probes. The problems, though important, are shopworn, and the book's analysis fails to reveal many new dimensions. From weekend mixers to bed and breakfast is not actually the one small step for Yale men and the giant leap for womankind that it was advertised...
...romantic matters, too, the little man is cut down to size. A woman's idealized lover is never short, dark and handsome, and both sexes seem to feel that the male should be taller than the female. The tall man thus has all of womankind to choose from; the short man must make do with the little woman. In the movies, either the romantic hero is tall or the heroine is photographed standing in a trench. Violins never throbbed for Mickey Rooney; false eyelashes never fluttered at Edward G. Robinson...
Like her husband, Lenore Romney campaigns as a defender of the home, the family and the church, but without the specific suggestions for solving the problems of the decade. She favors equal work opportunity for women but does not believe that American womankind is in need of liberation. On Viet Nam, she shares the view that the U.S. should not have entered the war, but agrees that Nixon's pace of withdrawal is the best currently possible. Something stronger will likely be needed to best Hart, a popular liberal Democrat with widespread support throughout the state...
Other than homosexuals and all womankind, not the least of its victims in our antagonistic society are the heterosexual males, themselves caught up in a chimera of superiority deriving from a culturally unconscious past. Chauvinism, in all its sexual as well as racial aspects, is the real enemy of all men and women who seek the one security that is viable?community?and the one freedom that is transcendant?individuation...
...divine inspiration. She insisted that her lecture's purpose was to prove that the word was "devoid of life and love." Nevertheless, parents besieged the superintendent of schools with irate phone calls and, at hastily convened meetings, vilified Mrs. Timbrook as a "whore" and "a disgrace to womankind...