Word: womens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...funds are desperately needed in the United States. Last year the National Institute of Health spent $800 million to save lives, what Roy Greep, director of the Center for Human Reproduction, calls "death control," and only one million on birth control. Last year alone, perhaps 5000-10,000 women suffered death or severe injury to their health as a consequence of illegal abortions. Of the 200,000 to 1,200,000 estimated illegal abortions performed in the United States each year, most women seeking them are married. Tragically, the state and national legislators are as insensitive to the need...
...Ritual. Freddy's dirty truths and Piet's butterfly adulteries converge with the arrival in Tarbox of Foxy Whitman and her husband Ken, a biochemist preoccupied with his own second-rateness. Alone of the women, Foxy seems unafraid of what Freddy calls "the smell and hurt of love"; seven years of childless boredom with Ken have made her vulnerable. Now, though she is pregnant, she and Piet Hanema fall in love, an old-fashioned and banal assertion of life that brings down on them and the tribe the old-fashioned and banal tribulations of middle-class guilt, entrapment...
...Updike's general reverence toward sex. His contemporaries invade the ground with wild Dionysian yelps, mocking both the taboos that would make it forbidden and the lust that drives men to it. Updike can be honest about it, and his descriptions of the sight, taste and texture of women's bodies can be perfect little madrigals...
...food makers have found, moreover, that women shoppers are as finicky as pussycats about buying pet food; supermarkets now offer her some 124 canned, dry or semi-moist varieties from which to choose. Most companies test their products on their own cats and dogs. At its pet-care center near St. Louis, for example, some 450 dogs and 250 cats slurp and chew Purina pet foods. Sniffing a trend toward "gourmet" dishes for discriminating dogs, Voila Foods for Pets, Inc., was founded this year to market burgundy beef in gravy and beef-kidney stew...
...apparently finds a certain connection among these three phenomena. He "expressed concern" about a seemingly widespread "form of student behavior," then cited the fact that "illegitimate births in the U.S. have tripled in the past 25 years." Partly to blame are "college officials who, by allowing men and women to visit each other in dorms, have encouraged intimacy both on and off campus, and 'are actually giving tacit consent to premarital sex.' . . . But Blaine saw brighter prospects ahead. He reported on a poll of Harvard undergraduates, most of whom indicated that they hope their future children will live...