Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Some communes actually form compromises with the nuclear family. Nowhere is this point better made than at Lama, a contemporary commune 18 miles north of Taos, N. Mex., which was re-revisited last week by Correspondent David DeVoss after an absence of 19 months...
...family, many experts believe that its more sensible goals could strengthen it. As women become increasingly emancipated?by child-care centers and equal-employment practices?they could have more time for intellectual and emotional fulfillment. Thus although their housekeeping role may diminish, they could become less frustrated and better wives. Though the idea is still shocking to many, some experts feel that certain women are better mothers if they are not with their children...
...Nader's latest report before he made his sons promise him on his deathbed that they would never put their mother in an old folks' home. For, as Nader made clear last week in a report to the Senate Special Committee on Aging, Momma may be far better off sharing an apartment with a homicidal son than in many of the nation's 24,000 nursing homes...
...much greater degree than in most years, the state of the economy will be determined by the mood of the people. Compared with 1970, it should be a fairly good year for business. Whether it will be better than that will depend on what the President does, more through deeds than words, to inspire the confidence of the American businessman and consumer...
...limp, adolescent, pseudo-hip study of the comic agonies of an unhappily married contemporary man. Elliott Gould, of course, is the star, and he shuffles through the cretinous proceedings with the guilty look of someone who has been through it all so many times before that he should know better. I Love My Wife is the kind of assembly-line candy bar movie that induces in an audience rage, stupor or pimples...