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More realistically, evidence shows that women will never shake off their chains. Feminism has won its battles, and except for a deranged member of the Society for Cutting Up Men shooting Andy Warhol and demonstrators at the Miss America pageant burning girdles and false eyelashes, there is no neo-feminist agitation against male supremacy. Women remain as charmingly or dully subjugated or as neurotically anguished as ever. Indeed, most are well satisfied with their lot; their freedom is always increasing and no one is really sure that Y-chromosome doesn't give the male mind all sorts of innate superiority...
Government institutions--as private ones--must not become ends in themselves but must be means to an end--to help citizens lead more meaningful lives. We must be willing to "shake up the bureaucracy" to achieve an open society...
When Wallace finally arrived, he didn't have time to shake hands with all the people who had been waiting, but he thanked them for being there and hoped that they'd come to the rally downtown. With that he went to his car and the small motorcade started off into Trenton...
After Wallace finished speaking, the crowd pushed forward to the foot of the platform, and he leaned over the edge to shake hands and to sign hats. Teenage girls with bad teeth came running out of the crowd yelling, "I got it," clutching a hat or a scrap of paper with Wallace's initials on it. And filing out slowly were the old people, with thin faces and flannel shirts buttoned up under the chin, and the middle-aged women, the wives of the men who were at work in the factories--shuffling toward the door and the street...
Then we shook hands, and Wallace said, "The Harvard Crimson. The Haaaaarvard Crimson. Now isn't that a fine name? Th' Haaaaarvard Crimson. 'Crimson,' now," he said, his brow furrowing, and his hand still holding onto mine in a dying hand-shake, "that...