In the fifteen years after World War II, this mystique of feminine fulfillment became the cherished and self-perpetuating core o
f contemporary American culture. ... For over fifteen years, the words written for women, and the words women used when they talked to each other, while their husbands sat on the other side of the room and talked shop or politics or septic tanks, were about problems with their children, or how to keep their husbands happy, or improve their children's school, or cook chicken or make slipcovers. Using context clues, choose the best synonym for the word perpetuating as it is used in this excerpt from Friedan's "The Problem That Has No Name."
The effect of the couplets in "To My Dear Loving Husband" and "To the King\s Most Excellent Majesty" is that D) they allow a poet to link lines of poetry together using sound.
Way of the beam is an idiom that expresses how wrong a person is. It is generally used in the United Kingdom. The origin of the idiom is as follows: Radio signals were used to guide aircrafts while landing. There were two transmitter one transmitted dots while the other transmitted dashes. In order to land aircraft the dots and dashes needed to merge.
