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...Ms. Kennedy also explained her personal involvement in the Feminist party, and advocated that Black women stay out of the party, as the unity of Black people is a more important priority. She did not blast the Afro-Am and Women's Studies, as Lemann implied, but criticized Harvard's treatment of these areas of study as "outrageous" and "disgraceful...
...Being a woman has never hindered me. It has never caused me any unease, never given me an inferiority complex. Men have always been good to me." Golda Meir, the 74-year-old Premier of Israel, talking to Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaei for Ms., decided to set a few things straight. Ben-Gurion's calling her "the only man in my Cabinet" was "just a legend." Had she ever killed anyone in Israel's years of war? "No . . . I learned to shoot, of course, but I've never had to kill anyone. I'm not saying...
...white society. As a result, most of them prefer to confine their crusading to such basic questions as employment, housing, education and the psychological effects of discrimination. "To black women," Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm sums up, "picketing a club restricted to men or insisting on the title Ms. are not burning issues...
...have the first word. Jack Lemmon, 48, the actor whose movie about a middle-aged sellout, Save the Tiger, is big at the box office, beat her to it. Both were in Cambridge, Mass., to receive awards from Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals. Lemmon allowed that Ms. Steinem "scared the hell out of me." Would he rather be Man of the Year than Person of the Year? Replied Lemmon: "...I'm glad to be anything!" Steinem was somewhat more partisan. Accepting an award "For Outstanding Contribution to Personhood," she remarked: "It was important that I come here...
...ACCEPTED, the headline announced, and the story went on to argue, with slightly Shavian logic, that the pox is now so prevalent that no one who has it should be obliged to feel guilty. "I wish at this point I could announce publicly I had had a venereal disease," Ms. Greer concluded. "Despite a lifetime of service to the cause of sexual liberation, I have never caught venereal disease, which makes me feel rather like an Arctic explorer who has never had frostbite...