Word: womens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Only a truly sentient artist, moved deeply and genuinely by the events in the lives of those men & women of the Old Testament, could have reanimated that ancient spirituality so luminously...
...Your reporting of my article on free-feeding pregnant women [TIME, Sept. 5] . . . has led a number of women to feel that if they were pregnant patients of mine they would be happy, but fat. Preferring not to be fat, they would not care to be patients of mine, and this, as you can well understand, is serious. Nowhere in your story could I find anything to ... explain, as was proved in my original article, that despite free-feeding, the average gain and the average retained weight after pregnancy is the same as the accepted standards...
...Also] my professional colleagues accuse me of making a "sweeping but poorly documented claim," namely, that "uninhibited, free-fed women have an easier time in labor." While this may be true, and I believe it is, I made no such claim...
...young married woman five years out of college ... I disagree with the statement by Wellesley's President Clapp that men & women have the same function as citizens and as members of the community . . . The primary function of woman in society is that of mother and homemaker, [and] her education should not completely blind her to the ultimate career which she will follow .... It is in the mental attitude of the woman when she is faced with the problems of the child and the home that the shortcomings of the college curriculum show up plainest. Her "broadened" mind is humiliated...
...Unless a revolution in attitudes of college-trained men and women is forthcoming," Harris warns, "the occupational downgrading of college trained personnel will have serious social and political effects. A frustrated intelligentsia, as European experience suggests, is a large political liability...