Word: womens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Women sit by great kettles of food, or display brightly-colored cloths, or guard piles of oranges, bananas, and mangoes. Throngs of people crowd the markets and mill in the little shops where shoes, mahogany products, straw hats, sisal baskets, and old French grammar books are sold. There is movement and excitement in the streets--but the energy has no focus, it leads nowhere...
...presently heading an M.I.T. activity. Miss Kivisild attributed the increase, three over last year, to the increased number of coeds (200 out of 3700) that now attend M.I.T. Until 1964 when the quota was raised to 50, there were less than 30 admitted per class. Next year approximately 100 women will be admitted to the freshman class...
...bitterness, a determined band of critics has been agitating for alimony reform. In a new book, Divorce and Custody for Men, once-divorced Author Charles Metz argues that alimony should be abolished completely. Anti-alimony demonstrations have been organized outside Manhattan's alimony prison. The National Organization of Women (NOW), will consider a motion at its next meeting deploring alimony as a reinforcement of women's lower status.* And a recent survey of the predominantly female readers of Good Housekeeping turned up the surprising fact that 92.5% of the 1,000 people polled thought a change was needed...
...attitudes toward extramarital sex have changed, and the depths to which lawyers will go to discredit an opponent's client have become increasingly distasteful. Most important of all has been the growing obviousness of the inequities that were being wrought. Says New York Judge Samuel Hofstadter: "Many deserving women get too little, and others less deserving get too much." To him, guilt is a clearly outmoded concept in divorce. Besides, he points out, "in probably 90% of all cases, neither spouse is at fault, or both may be to some degree...
Imperfect Nude. Like other publications of more pretension, Eye felt called upon to run at least one put-on, a bit of misogynic whimsy by Freelancer Pete Hamill urging the drafting of women. Hamill arrived at this conclusion after noting the behavior of a group of women who gathered in front of a police station after a rape suspect was brought in. They screamed: "Give him cancer." Writes Hamill: "It is at those moments that you understand that Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is, after all, a play about counter-insurgency...