Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whites can stop themselves from designing games for minorities to play and how minorities can take over citizenship on their own terms is one of American society's most difficult unanswered questions. William Edwards
...them in Confederation by force." Problems arise in defining a "good majority." O'Leary claimed that 51 per cent of the voters would constitute a majority large enough to warrant separation. Fraser disagreed, saying that 51 per cent of the people do not "have the right to destroy the citizenship of 49 per cent...
...class changes in response. Trilling's final note of despair--"If one of our outstanding women's colleges can do not better than to encourage such flaccid sentimental idealism...What chance, I wonder, have we for a female social force equal to the stupendous task of claiming a full citizenship for the second sex?"--seems overly pessimistic. On its own, Radcliffe can do very little to determine the kind of education its students seek; it could force women into marketable areas, but that would not alter their post-graduate life. It is up to the women themselves to fight their...
...dads' army" in the 38-to-50 age group. It has also recruited about 1,000 "volunteers" from foreign countries. The largest foreign contingent is British, and there are at least 100 Americans, most of them Viet Nam veterans. Since they face possible loss of their U.S. citizenship for fighting in Rhodesia, the Americans are reluctant to disclose their real names. One, who calls himself Jimmy Smith, praises his fellow fighting men, both black and white, but adds, "It's like swatting mosquitoes. You kill a bunch and hold off another bunch, but there are so many around...
...should be the center of everything." New York Correspondent Marion Knox, who traveled to Florida to interview Morgan and her family, agrees. "The problem with the concept of submission is that, while it may lead to a more peaceful union, it might easily lead to second-class citizenship for the wife." But, adds Knox, "I would very much like to see a third book by Marabel Morgan that will explain the ways a woman can adroitly juggle both career and family demands...