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Rather than an ardent hedonist, Millet views herself as a passive participant malleable to the desires of others, observing, "I am not docile because I like submission, because I have never tried to put myself in a masochistic situation, but out of a deep-seated indifference to the uses to which we put our bodies." It's unclear, however, why such indifference led her to embrace sex rather than, say, field hockey...
...original girl in the gray flannel skirt, the first woman president of a big Madison Avenue firm. Wells was the godmother of a style of advertising that was witty, irreverent and anti-authority. Her memoir, A Big Life, tells the tale of her agency, Wells Rich Greene; her ardent wooing of clients; her even more ardent love match with Harding Lawrence, the impresario of Braniff Airways; and her battle with cancer. It's as engaging, effervescent and brave as the ads she created. --By Richard Stengel
...addition to his involvement in the popular Core classes, Kirby has also been an ardent supporter of making study abroad a more integral part of undergraduate education. At a Faculty meeting last fall, he delivered an eloquent speech on the subject that was met with the applause of the Faculty—a rare occurrence at these meetings...
...Harvard softball team’s season may have ended yesterday without an Ivy title, an NCAA bid or a thousand-strong crowd of ardent supporters. But what it did have—the best record in school history, the school’s first ECAC championship, and a thousand-strong horde of sweet memories—was plenty to be happy...
...Christian right, such as school prayer, has kept most Jews firmly in the Democratic camp. But that may be changing. At the AIPAC convention last week, one of the most enthusiastically received speakers was DeLay, the born-again Christian who has lately positioned himself as the most ardent Zionist in Congress. At the grass roots, Jews say they feel a growing solidarity with Fundamentalist Christians about Israel. "I listen to Rush Limbaugh now," says Moira Klein, 72, a liberal Jewish retiree who lives in Boca Raton, Fla., "and I like what I hear." Republicans hope that they will be hearing...