Word: divorcee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the 1950s, Mike, you were the host of several highly controversial TV shows. You acted on Broadway and got your second divorce. Why have you omitted all those details from your biography in Who's Who?
American law permits divorce, but reluctantly. It is a deeply rooted Western tradition that the partners must be somehow punished for ending a marriage. Hence the squalid court fights, private detectives with strobe guns, ruinously expensive lawyers' fees and the weeks at Reno dude ranches. A quarter of American...
Now California, the Western continental edge where the nation's future is said to lie, has adopted a divorce reform law that permits a couple to terminate their marriage almost on demand. No longer must cruelty, adultery, desertion or neglect be proved. If either husband or wife claims that...
On another front, the Vatican suffered a more acute embarrassment. Rome's T-7, a weekly entertainment magazine, conducted a poll of 300 journalists and 3,000 of its readers to select Italy's Man of the Year. Pope Paul finished second, but it was a discouraging second...
In company with most of the new sociologists, Horowitz is bent on redefining the traditionally accepted symptoms of social deviance: divorce, homosexuality, crime and revolution. In a white-dominated society, for that matter, a man can be labeled deviant just because he is black. "But how do we know what...