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Thus it's not at all surprising that one of Mailer's sharpest criticisms of Kate Millett is that "she has a mind like a flatiron, which is to say a totally masculine mind." He reacts against Millett and her feminist tome, Sexual Politics, on an immediate, instinctual level, the way he might balk if a woman sauntered into an all-male sauna in which he was sweating and luxuriating. He seems to feel instinctively that Millett simply doesn't belong where she roams, that she's misguided and out of her ken. His bafflement over another liberationist, a female...

Author: By Elizabeth R. Fishel, | Title: The Prisoner of Sexism Jail and Roses | 3/18/1971 | See Source »

...Committee on Rights and Responsibilities has just suffered its sharpest setback. By huge majorities, undergraduates have rejected participation on the CRR and dashed its claims to University-wide legitimacy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Replace the CRR | 3/3/1971 | See Source »

Surprisingly, some of the sharpest criticism of Castro is coming from European leftists who have frequently visited Cuba, talked with him and supported his goals. Polish-born Journalist K.S. Karol, who writes out of Paris for Le Monde, Le Nouvel Observateur and Britain's New Statesman, is one. His Guerrillas in Power: The Course of the Cuban Revolution has become required reading for U.S. intelligence and Latin American specialists. French Agronomist Réne Dumont also faults Castro in his Cuba: Is It Socialist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: The Mortgaged Island | 2/8/1971 | See Source »

...Women's Lib but to the left of total fulfillment through old-fashioned marriage. She loves her husband Paul, a college professor who is a scholar of social disorder. She is inordinately proud of the body that brings her pleasure and has borne her two children. But her sharpest perceptions affirm her worst fears: "My life hardly differs from that of an Indian squaw settled in a tepee on the same Manhattan land centuries ago. Pick, clean, prepare, throw out, dig a hole, bury the waste-she was my sister. She would understand why there should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love as a Bridge | 1/25/1971 | See Source »

This $600 hike, from $2800 to $3400,is the sharpest tuition increase in the University's history...

Author: By Samuel Z. Goldhaber, | Title: Tuition Rises Next Year In College and B-School | 1/5/1971 | See Source »

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