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...Halfway through the book, Ftiedan finally firs the last piece of the puzzle together, realizing that "somehow, somewhere, someone must have figured out...buy more things if they are kept in the underused, nameless-yeaming, energy-to-get-tid-of-stare of being housewives" (FAf, 181). Just in case we might...

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...years since had seen a retreat into an unreal, and inevitably unsatisfying, fantasy of domesticity: 'somehow, somewhere, someone must have figured out...buy more things if they are kept in the underused, Kennedy's proposed civil rights legislation has been stalled in Congress by Southern Democrats, but...

...makes sense (and dollars) when one realizes that women are the chief customers of American business. Somehow, somewhere, someone must have figured out...nameless-yearning, energy-to-get-rid-of state of being housewives."15 It would seem, in short, that the prevailing dichotomy between Lever House and Levittown...