Word: womens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems certain that kuru was the result of a slow-acting virus, transmitted from one Fore to another by cannibalism. Women and children who ate the brains of tribesmen who died of kuru far outnumber men as kuru victims. Cannibalism was stamped out-or so the Australian government thinks -about twelve years ago. Gajdusek reports hopefully that there has not been a single case of kuru among children born in the past twelve years...
...sort of junior Mary McCarthy or a Colette reborn: "She is a modern woman, independent and activist, a beautiful, intelligent, with-it, extraordinarily well-informed, first-class brain." When she practices instant sociology, the first-class brain slips occasionally. Her recent "Notes on the New Marriage" between dominating women and homosexual men contained a fascinating idea, but was flawed by superficiality and sweeping overstatements ("In the land of camp and Conspicuously-Elaborate Consumption, the New Marrieds reign...
Though she has tried to get away from the "woman writer" tag, Gloria does not hide her feminine point of view. For the current issue of New York, she complains, in an essay about "Women and Power," that in a society which sees ambition as somehow unfeminine, "most women will have to exercise their much denied but very much alive instincts for power through men for a while yet." Happily, she forecasts a change in the future because "young girls are refusing to be emotionally blackmailed into domesticity...
...married. The trouble is, I just don't want to now. You can't expect a man to give you your identity on a silver platter, which is what society would have us believe. That's dishonest, and it has produced a lot of bitter women. Because I have work to care about, it's possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form...
Portly Footballer. That world, on the first night aboard, looks like a floating opera buffa of the absurd. In a corridor amidships, a 22-year-old stock clerk has blocked the way of a nurse from Detroit, one of the youngest women aboard. He does not discuss Albert Einstein. "Are you really from Detroit?" he asks. "Yes, Detroit." "Gee, I was there in 1965, Detroit." "It's nice, isn't it?"'"Sure is, buy ya a drink...