Thus, women should not be cowed into believing that to ask for alimony is to be unliberated, or that their husbands provide alimony out of the largesse of their noble hearts. For every war widow there may be several dozen wives who cope with the physical and emotional damage inflicted by war on their husbands and sons. Without the means to prevent, and to control the timing of conception, economic and political rights have limited meaning for women. If women cannot plan their pregnwncies, they can plan little else in their lives. When something important is going on, silence is a lie.
Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.
The former is a pattern of sex discrimination, the latter of institutionalized sexism. In the fall of 1972 President Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing. This was the first time that a sitting president used the third derivative to advance his case for reelection. Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours. Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment.