Word: bolls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Suzanne S. Paul, a 1961 graduate of a now-defunct Business School program for women, brought charges against the club and its director of placement, Carl R. Boll, after he refused to admit her to an October 22 meeting of about 30 men discussing job placement. The City Commission on Human Rights will hold a fact-finding hearing on the incident this morning...
...Boll, who has counseled Business School graduates free of charge for more than 30 years, said yesterday that he discusses job problems with women individually, but does not allow them to attend meetings he conducts every Thursday evening...
Officials at the Business School have stated that the club is independent of the University but that they disapprove of Boll's exclusion of women...
...Club itself, which relies heavily on volunteer services such as Boll's, also stated it was unaware of Boll's position, although the School has offered programs for women since 1937. "The first I heard of it was at a women's liberation program we held in early November where Mrs. Paul spoke," Stephen H. Baum, assistant to the president of the club, said yesterday...
Through his art Boll hopes to attain, as he describes the expression of one of his characters, "something between obsession and detachment, something magical." The magic succeeds for heartening reasons. Boll puts narrative above experimentation. His "neorealism" cares more for compassion than savage attack. His moral vision deals with the guilt in the technically innocent. Above all, Boll continues to be loftily serious about an age that many writers have given...