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...protest they could against a culture that had a stranglehold on the Jewish population in general-and a double one on Jewish Women. Over and over again, the theme that emerges from these autobiographies is the struggle for education-a struggle against the anti-Semitic government that enforced a rigid quota system to limit Jewish attendance at state schools, and a struggle against the Jewish religion itself, which set up learning as the highest good and then decreed that is was the preserve of Jewish men only...
...distinctively American style has emerged only in the past few years. Its spirit is free and frisky, its emphasis on casual comfort. Rejecting the rigid formalism of European haute couture, American designers rediscovered the body. They started making versatile, flexible attire that can carry a woman through the day and past the evening. The ready-to-wear lines are virtually ageless and classless, and are within the reach of most women. A trendy suit from a top designer can cost less than $200; T shirts, from $10 to $20; an eye-catching swimsuit goes for $25 to $60. Women...
...finally curls up in a fetal position on the bathroom floor. While Nick has leapt, feet first, into an upstairs bedroom with Martha, George pulls a volume from a shelf of his extensive library and reads: "And the west, encumbered by crippling alliances, and burdened with a morality too rigid to accomodate itself to the swing of events, must...eventually...fall.' (Such is the nature of Albee's eclectic style), whereupon he shuts the book, shouts to the ceiling, "That's it! Go at it!" and plots his revenge, which ultimately amounts to no more than announcing to Martha, once...
Self-Gratification. Fairlie, a British journalist who has lived for the past ten years in the U.S., can be severe and very rigid about America as a "spoiled child." Despite that tone, he is basically a classic liberal, worried about elitism and the decline of equal education and opportunity. His New World symphonette is delivered in elegant cadences. "The future of the world lies with America," Fairlie believes, and "it would be a tragedy if, in the rage that must be endured, America wearied of its own idea." Much of Fairlie's book is a rich and occasionally cranky...
Conservative economists consider the economy too complex to ensure jobs for all workers without rigid wage and price controls. Unless the economy nosedives unexpectedly, the Humphrey-Hawkins bill seems unlikely to be enacted-and the rising economic trend remains Gerald Ford's best argument as he seeks to retain the presidency...