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Political succession by pedigree, however, by no means precludes women from brilliantly exercising power. For most of history, it was the only path by which women could come to rule. The pattern is not alien to the West, where potentates of genius included daughters of kings, such as Elizabeth I...
In 1982, Catherine G. Krupnick, former director of the Danforth Center for Teaching, studied 24 Harvard sections and found that in all cases, men spoke more than women. In predominantly male classes taught by male professors, she found that men spoke 2.5 times longer than women.
Wyler's daughter Catherine is a producer and the chief instigator of the new, fictive Memphis Belle, which displays the same flaws and virtues as her father's work. Despite the passage of a demythifying half-century, this well- cast plane crew (Matthew Modine and Eric Stoltz, among others) remains...
MEMORIES OF MIDNIGHT, by Sidney Sheldon (Morrow; 399 pages; $21.95), is one of a large and growing subgenre of evil-Greek-shipowner thrillers. Nasty fellows, those fictional Greek shipowners. This one, rich and loathsome Constantin Demiris, has arranged that his unfaithful mistress and her lover, Demiris' pilot, be executed for...
Usually, the targeted spouse is a woman. "This is the '90s version of public flogging," says Catherine Blinder of the Connecticut Commission on the Status of Women. "Women have always been persecuted for infidelity." In July Donna Carroll, a Janesville, Wis., homemaker, completed 40 hours of community service and attended...