Word: women
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...champions of equal rights for women cavil. In 1964, granddaughters of the original suffragettes managed to insert a clause into the Civil Rights Act forbidding job discrimination based on sex. But draftable females were less than ecstatic. "Now that would put real meaning into Uncle Sam's saying 'I Want You,' " noted Manhattan Model Mason Susanne Boyd, 23. "The old lecher...
...sidewalk Romeos of Rome are among the world's most aggressive. Known locally as "pappagalli" (parrots) for their incessant and provocative chatter ("Eh, bella, you speaka English? Wanna spaghetti? I give you little spaghetti, huh?"), they trail women tourists through the Via Veneto, along the Spanish Steps, and around the Fountain of Trevi. Gabbing often gives way to grabbing, and the pappagalli are adept at supplementing their spiels with patting, pinching and poking...
...prostitutes. Despite the Republican Party's dedication to law and order, said Royko, only one of the girls had been pinched, legally. Said an aide to the Miami Beach police chief: "We have not had a single complaint, so their service must be satisfactory." Agnes Ash of Women's Wear Daily noted the plight of Ben Novack, owner of the Hotel Fontainebleau. "The Republicans aren't spending any money," he groused. "I'm not making a dime out of this convention." Outfitted in his "double-breasted blue flannel blazer, yachting cap and white duck pants," wrote...
Drama of the Decades. Packard's prevailing theme invokes one of Newton's more familiar laws. "The primary drama of recent decades," he says, "is that women have been acting and men have been reacting." Mostly, he finds, women have been acting up. To underscore his point, Packard offers a regional breakdown of the percentage of premarital experience among American women: 57% in the East, 48% in the West, 32% in the South, 25% in the Midwest. The geographic conclusion is obvious: traditional behavior dies hard in the South and Midwest, while liberation is more readily embraced...
...than an acknowledgment of what many social scientists have been saying for years. The rise in premarital relations, he feels, is due largely to an undermining of woman's traditional role. Not only does the teenage girl find the rules at home increasingly relaxed, but 19% more American women attend college than did in 1940. And today's centers of higher education are geared to provide them with independence of thought, to say nothing of an opportunity and urge to exercise that independence...