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...seems that the main cause of the conflict on female status in present-day society arises not so much from any question about the abilities of women as from the common tendency to forget that not all people are alike. While some women are perfectly happy in a full-time domestic life, others would be reduced to a state of near insanity by it, and are better off in the working world; still others, like Phyllis McGinley, are able to combine both. It would be nice if some day we could stop trying to force all women into a common...
...Elected to a one-year term as moderator Wichita Lawyer William Phelps Thompson, 46. The fifth layman in recent years to serve in the largely ceremonial office of chief spokesman for the United Presbyterians, Thompson endorsed the confession as "a precise statement of what we believe that deals with present-day concerns...
...reality physically into his art. In his studio in Germany, he also constructed a collage environment-his famed Merzbau. It was sort of a cubistic grotto, cluttered with such objects as the plaster-of-Paris-dipped socks of a fellow artist. The Merzbau was also the prototype of "environments," present-day art works that envelop viewers like architecture-fundamentally collage turned inside out. Schwitters had moved from Dada's mockery to an acceptance of commonplace ephemera as O.K. material for art. Shout Through Refuse. "A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting than are wood...
...quiz-show type. The true intellectual, the quiet, original thinker who has the acumen and the courage of original thought, still receives only a trifle of the recognition paid to the pseudo intellectuals who often dominate the scene. If those criteria are applied, it becomes doubtful whether present-day America can boast a population ratio of intellectuals 7.5 times as large as that attributed to the Greece of Socrates and Plato...
Eartha has never peddled very safe or comfortable sex, and as Columnist Earl Wilson noted, "Eartha, in line with present-day trends, has made changes in her sexy act. She's made it sexier...