Word: womens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...electoral votes of several Southern states. He is emphasizing "law and order" himself, but Agnew is doing it in much tougher terms. "Nixon and Agnew are riding the right issue?trouble in the streets," said a Maryland Republican. "It's the big issue. It outruns everything, especially with women voters. They're scared to death to walk down the street any more. But what a hell of an issue to have to run on." According to a Democratic strategist, the G.O.P. hopes to score victories in Dixie by telling Southerners through Agnew they can get what Wallace promises, but without...
...much of his time hunting and golfing. But in 1955, 22 years after he came to power, Zahir Shah decreed the beginning of formal economic planning and began to move his 15 million subjects on the road to democracy. He ruled that the chadri, a tentlike garment that makes women look like ambulatory potato sacks, need no longer be compulsory garb. In 1964, he promulgated a new constitution that in the long run, as its institutions evolve, will considerably reduce his own power. A year later, following the country's first free elections, the 216-seat Wolesi Jirga...
Meantime, the lack of political parties has hamstrung the parliament. It wastes much time debating such weighty measures as whether Afghan women should be prohibited from going abroad unchaperoned. Debate on a proposed Afghan-Polish cultural exchange broke up in confusion when a back-country member of parliament angrily shouted: "I know what a cultural agreement means. It means Afghan women dancing naked in the streets of Warsaw...
When it comes to love, Cohen can be both a romantic and a realist. At times he glorifies women as succoring goddesses. In Suzanne, published in the book as a poem, a half-mad woman in rags and feathers is melded with the Christ figure to express the perfect union of body and mind...
Menacing Blades. At other times, Cohen sees women as dangerous creatures capable of destroying his freedom and dignity. He can be wry about it, although in The Cuckold's Song his double-edged view of love leads to an exercise in self-mockery that could be described as black romanticism. Addressing the women who have injured his pride, he concludes...