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STORM A FOREST WONDER The storm is coming. Gray alders huddle, subdue their fear. Gasping for breath, the red sky begs for mercy. The wind shoots up like a pillar. Stampeding lightnings glare, forcing the poppies to squint and kneel in fear. The wind sobs like a clarinet. The fox, astronomer of night, howls as thunder tears the horsecloth sky to shreds. Beyond the storm the distances dig tunnels through the clouds. Like whetted swords, my words clash with lightining bolts. Learn the forest language from the book of foxes and deer. The moon rises over the forest to write elegies on stumps. Streams rinse the silvered silence, the grass is sheathed in dew. Let the night write plain words in the book of the forest. POETRY .... ’’Square of A n gels”, a new collection s of poem s by Bohdan Antonych has just been released by Ardis Publishers, Ann Arbor, Michigan 1977. The poem s, were Dawn. Daylight strips the stars like brass buttons off the fog’s overcoat, scattering them like seeds into groves for nightingales. The valley sleeps in sheets of silence, where the moss of darkness grows till a melon, trailing seeds of light, rolls over a burdock leaf of dawn. translated by Mark Rudman and Paul Nemser with Bohdan Boychuk. The collection bears an introduction by Bohdan Rubchak, relating the poets biography and discussing the poem s. should not be discriminated against but should be welcomed into our organizations. We should try to hold seminars, workshops or produce tapes or records in Conversational Ukrainian. Preserving our language is important to national survival but that does not mean that those who do not have the knowledge of the language do not feel strong ties to the nation. We must accept all Ukrainian women and make them feel valuable to our organization and the Ukrainian nation. Our women’s organizations must take an active role in the political life of their country, and find a practical approach to their participation in political and social actions of their communities. Time has come for abandoning our immigrant status and we must consider ourselves full-fledged citizens of the country of our residence. Ukrainian interest must be represented in local and national governments; if we don’t do it for ourselves, no one will do it for us. The contemporary young woman that we are trying to bring into our organizations is well educated with a wide scope of interests and with bigger demands. Ukrainian women’s organizations must be made available to her. Their programs must provide for her growth not only as a women but as a member of society and her nation. Today’s young woman is not only a mother, wife, professional, worker or student; some times she is one but most often she is many of these simultaneously. A social service, non-partisan, organi zation in which all members are able to participate and grow, should appeal to the contemporary woman. At the end, I would like all the delegates of this 3rd World Congress to look among each other. How many young women are are here among us and will we make sure that they will be represented at our next congress as well as in the leadership of all our organizations. O lga S ta w n ych y MOTRIA KUSHNIR WOMAN VIEWS & NEWS IN WOMAN'S WORLD Among the many neuroses popular p sychology ascribes to women is our so-called pathological "fear of s u c c e s s .” We don’t su c ceed , the saving g o e s, b ecau se we fear the pressures, res ponsibilities and power that com e with being ”up there.” Not so, more recent studies have found. Women in b u sin ess are eager for su c c e s s. Yet, they fear social disapproval relatedto achievem ent. T hese findings correlate nicely with other studies which have found that men fear su ccessfu l women. Men, it seem s, have a near-neurotic fear of failure and inadequacy. They prefer to be surrounded by people who are not geared towafrds achievement; in avoiding the achievers, they feel more secure about not failing, in as much as they create a cushion and support system for them selves. T h ese findings were produced by the New York job design consultant firm Drake. Neam and A sso cia tes and by the Psychology Department at the University of Northern Iowa. The studies also dispelled several other myths about women in business. The ab sen ce rate is statistically no higher for womeb than it is for men. The turn over rate is not different, either. Although level of commitment to productivity is difficult to measure, a control study show ed that w om en’s level of commitment is higher than men’s. Sketchy data show ed that levels of d ependency are essentially equal for men and women, varying according to the individual. Finally, the data show ed alm ost incontrovertibly that women do not make d ecisio n s based on emotion. The conclysion of the studies was that a wom an’s need to achieve starts to fade when further achievem ent threatens approval. The withdrawl of approbation can take many forms: mild harassment, outright hostility, denial of promotion or termination of employment. What’s a lady to do? To paraphrase Shakespeare’s C assius, ’’The fault, dear Brutus, d o es not necessarily lie in ourselves, but can lie in our stars.” 24 НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ, ЧЕРВЕНЬ 1977 Видання C оюзу Українок A мерики - перевидано в електронному форматі в 2012 році . A рхів C У A - Ню Йорк , Н . Й . C Ш A.
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