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Thursday, Jan. 12, 1961 University Daily Kansan
American Male Defends The American Woman
At every cocktail party, in every interview with movie actors, businessmen, and even some diplomats, and in almost every magazine and newspaper, the refrain is the same: "American women talk too much."
American women talk too much. "American women do not have the feminine charm of the Oriental women.
"There just isn't any comparison. I'll take the Japanese woman for her pleasant way of accommodating a man, the Chinese for her grace and intelligence and the Vietnamese for pure beauty. The American woman? Maybe for her money, but what else does she possibly have?"
What, the, he asks, is the truth about the US woman living abroad? Is she monster or myth? His answer is that she is pretty wonderful and indispensable to her husband, and he wouldn't trade her for half a dozen of the seductive Oriental beauties.
The criticism that she talks too much can be turned into one of her finest attributes, he says.
In an article written by Robert Klaverkamp, United Press International correspondent abroad, the American woman is defended.
THE MUCH-MALIGNED American housewife, taking care of her family in a foreign clime, in most cases doesn't even have time to defend herself, he says. Since Japan is largely a man's world, she isn't even at the club or party where she's being crucified verbally. And her husband is either remaining discreetly quiet or agreeing with some of the criticism he continues
"Any man who doesn't enjoy matching verbal wit with a woman isn't worth his salt, and even good companionship is barren without a little conversation now and then."
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THE ORIENTAL BEAUTY may exude sex appeal, he continues, but if she's smiling and agreeing with everything you say and do, "this little tableau can bore even the most supreme Casanova egoists." He contends that a woman who speaks her mind is a refreshing commodity, and American women are best at this even if they sometimes puncture an ego in the process.
"Being a bit of the gregarious helps in this department and the American woman loves mixing at a cocktail party. She can engage and disengage herself from all of her guests more often in an evening than Khrushchev can blow hot and cold over Berlin. And the guests love it."
"WHO CAN BUNDLE the kids off to school in the morning, get Papa on his way, line up a speaker for the monthly meeting of her women's group, lunch downtown with three of her friends, study Japanese for two hours in the afternoon, and be ready to accompany her husband in the evening while he entertains a couple of visiting firemen from San Francisco? Maybe not a typical day, but some American women have been known to do more."
He cites the following examples for the American woman's ability to shine through with variety being the spice of life:
Also, he says, the American woman is the best hostess.
HE CONTENDS that there is beauty in a woman who can talk intelligently about more than two or three subjects.
And finally to the looks of the American woman. What does Mr. Klaverkamp say? "They look good!"
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Jim Carr, Carthage, Mo., sophomore, has been elected president of Delta Chi fraternity for the spring semester.
Other officers are Dean Daniels,
Chanute senior, vice president;
Steve Stazel, Fredonia sophomore,
secretary; Jerry Andre, Honolulu,
Hawaii, junior, treasurer; Kirk
Bond, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore,
corresponding secretary, and Doug
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Delta Upsilon
The Delta Upsilon fraternity pledge class recently announced the election of their second semester officers. They are Jerry Woods,
Larned, president; Tom Hamill,
Colby, vice president; Chuck Heath
Salina, secretary-treasurer. All are
freshmen.
Re-elected to office were Pete Alyward, Ellsworth sophomore, social chairman; Bo Guenther, Augusta freshman, and Derril Gwinner. Ellsworth freshman, song leaders.
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Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Sigma Alpha Epsilon recently elected spring semester officers. They are Jim Hodge, Baltimore, Md., senior president; Clark Stewart, Nashville senior, vice president; Mike Roverson, Abilene junior, recorder; Max Eberhart, Great Bend junior, treasurer; Tom Kerr, Kansas City junior, assistant treasurer,
and Jim Warner, Wichita sophomore, correspondent.
Also elected were Larry Diehl, McPherson senior, chronicler; Kent Converse, Larned sophomore, herald; Jim Talley, De Soto junior, intramural manager; Charles McIwaine, Wichita senior, pledge trainer; Rex Romeiser, Salina sophomore, assistant pledge trainer; Dave Hall, Wichita senior, house manager; and Don McKillop, Kansas City sophomore, warden.
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