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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Howe asks, "cannot intelligent and humane people look upon sexual differences as a source of pleasure?" From Sexual Politics, "you would never know that there are families where men and women work together in a reasonable approximation of humanness, fraternity and even equality...
When society accepts this difference, Tiger suggests, it can minimize the effects. How? By adjusting exams and work time (the flying time of women pilots, for example) "to the realities of female experience." When feminists ignore biology, claims Tiger, they may make it harder for women to compete for scholarships, jobs, graduate school entry and other prerequisites of wealth and status...
According to Journalist Decter (who is 43, married, and the mother of four children), the liberated woman, with most of men's options open to her, has found work less interesting and sex less fun than she had hoped. By her very discontent with what most men find rewarding, she has proved herself different from men. But to this she is blind; in Women's Lib she has created a "culture of dissatisfaction," and she has found someone to blame...
...Pope. On his last afternoon in Manila, Paul traveled to the dilapidated shacks of the city's Tondo slum. There he visited the home of Carlos Navarro, a construction worker who tries to support a wife and eight children on a dollar a day-when he can find work. Before he left Navarro's dirt-floored shack, the Pope slipped $500 into Navarro's pocket. For the astonished Navarro, the money meant at least two years' income. The Pope left the shack with tears in his eyes...
...Stein family, which came to be known as les Americains, made a powerful buying unit; it helped keep some of the best young artists in Europe alive. Gertrude's brother Leo (an aesthete of some pretension, some understanding and much enthusiasm) graduated to modern art via Cezanne, whose work he began to buy in 1904. Her second brother Michael concentrated on the paintings and bronzes of Henri Matisse. Gertrude herself liked Picasso and Juan Gris. "Americans can understand Spaniards," she wrote. "Cubism is a purely Spanish conception, and only Spaniards can be Cubists" -thus cheerfully disregarding Braque...