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...Seneca said that art imitates nature...
...Spafford had come to the 1848 public declaration of independence for women, the Declaration of Women's Rights set forth in Seneca Falls, New York. She skimmed on to the present. Here Dr. Bennetta B. Washington, wife of Washington, D.C.'s Negro mayor, took over: "Women--Today and Tomorrow." She was now speaking to a bored and increasingly restless audience. The more bold slipped...
...them, the battle cry of women's rights was only a musty echo from the past. Yet, 120 years after the Seneca Falls declaration, women's clubs are still holding "First Ladies Luncheons." And last week in New York a prominent female correspondent was barred from a press luncheon with British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Roy Jenkins. The gathering took place in a men's club...
Died. John Big Tree, 90, a chief of the Seneca Indian tribe, whose craggy profile became familiar to every American when Sculptor James Earle Fraser used it as a model for the "heads" side of the 1913 Buffalo nickel; after a brief illness; near Syracuse...
...Primitive tribes usually fear the suicide as a ghostly avenger. Pre-Christian Greeks tended to disapprove of it as an offense against the gods, whose property men were. But the Stoics and Epicureans, taking man as the measure of all things, condoned self-destruction as a blessed escape. Said Seneca: "Against all the injuries of life, I have the refuge of death." As Nietzsche was later to remark more pithily: "The thought of suicide gets one successfully through many a bad night...