Mark My Words … I Mean What I Say

0 Comments | Insight on the News, Feb 15, 1999 | by John Elvin

"It's a potentially dangerous event involving large numbers of people running without clothes in the cold, often drank."

-- Taylor Reveley, a Princeton trustee, expresses concern regarding the university's Nude Olympics, which students defend as a "tradition."

"Some historian recently wrote some attack on me in which he claimed that I was only pretending to be a suburban housewife, that I was supposed to be an agent."

-- Women's-lib matriarch Betty Friedan dismisses a new book Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique, by Smith College professor David Horowitz, in which it is alleged that she was a professional propagandist for the communist left for more than a decade prior to taking up the feminist cause.

"Somebody, somewhere, love me."

-- A repeated "prayer" by missing atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair in diaries that will be auctioned to pay creditors and back taxes.

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