Word: maintains
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Should Harvard decide to look within the University for its next president, the biggest plus in Bok's favor is that he has few enemies. He manages to be personable and still maintain a sense of formality...
...different they can have their own colleges and shouldn't be at Harvard. Women's Liberation explains how social roles have prescribed women's behavior, not vice versa. Dean Peterson does not even pretend that Harvard and Radcliffe are separate but equal, just separate and different. He wants to maintain the 4-to-1 ratio not because they are getting an equal education elsewhere but because they can be better kept in their place elsewhere...
...insights of Women's Liberation provide the needed alternative explanation. No person can be molded into what schools and advertising define as a good mother or good wife or good husband without being deformed. People are fighting to maintain the little dignity they have been left with. Girls have been taught that their worth is in their "reputations," in their looks, in their ability to catch a man. Mothers have been taught that, while their husbands are out working, their worth is in bringing up the children. No wonder they fight to make that seem like a lifetime job. What...
...hurt because they cannot have human relationships with women. Men's roles are dehumanized too. We must conceal our weakness, maintain a myth of omnipotence. But we have been taught that our dealings in the "man's world" are what is really important anyway. Within the context of this dying society, we are the beneficiaries of sexism. While we become rich, famous, powerful, the shit-work will be done for us by "our" women, changing diapers, typing reports, washing dishes, scrubbing the floors. (If we are rich enough, we will let our wives out of some of these jobs...
Guggenheim will have an easier time in Michigan, where Democratic Senator Philip Hart is ahead and has all the image he needs. To maintain it, Guggenheim shot 200 hours of film showing Hart at work in Washington and talking to the voters at home. Treleaven's problem is to establish Lenore Romney as a personality independent of husband George. He is trying to make the best of adversity by using only her first name on billboards, bumper stickers and television...