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KATHRYN M. CONNELL Berkeley, Calif...
...their relevance to biblical and archaeological studies. They have thrived in recent years with funds from the post-Sputnik National Defense Education Act, the Ford Foundation and oil companies. Today leading centers-generally umbrella departments coordinating language, history, cultural and political studies-are at Princeton, U.C.L.A., Columbia, Chicago, Berkeley, Harvard and Michigan...
...contemporary studies. Harvard, for instance, has three Arabs on its tenured faculty, but two are medievalists and the third is a linguist. There are no tenured Arabs at all in the University of Chicago's Middle Eastern program, and only one in a staff of 15 at Berkeley...
Backing up Miss Beckson are the eight Hot Box Girls who handle their Busby Berkeley-ish routines with adequate precision. However, in "Take Back Your Mink," their strip-tease number which features skin-tone body stockings with strategically-placed, appliqued hearts, the Hot Box Girls appear more embarrassed than their audience...
While adults were worrying about the effect of male-chauvinist reading on their offspring, the children themselves, some of them anyway, seem already to have absorbed the feminist lesson despite their biased primers. The first-grade daughter of a Berkeley family in which husband and wife share the housework recently noticed, while looking at her primer, a picture of a mother cooking and a daddy reading the paper. "Why is she working and he's just sitting there?" the girl asked. Then she looked again and said: "I know. It must be her week to cook...