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...creative. Why then were the Harvard guys always the more creative musicians and writers, the more dynamic political leaders, while we had the obviously inferior merit of "getting better grades?" We, accepting even the humor of male-dominated Harvard society, laughed at the Radcliffe grindiness, guarded a secret contempt for our sisters who were insecure enough to work hard, and strove to be part of male society...
Finally, in the mind of one who actually believed it, the happy-matron-career-woman notion promoted by Radcliffe is a dreadful illusion, and one which if taken seriously can keep us not only from developing our own possibilities, but from relating to other women. The contempt and mistrust women have for each other, even when they are "friends," is the counterpart of the excessive awe we feel towards men, and part of what makes us sense that we would be utterly desolate without a man in our lives...
...opposite directions without even having exchanged names. The boy flies the plane, which they have repainted with an obscenely psychedelic collage, back to L. A. International Airport and personal disaster; the girl hops in her car to confront her playboy boss in his Phoenix, Arizona business retreat with a contempt that she learned in her desert adventure...
...process of becoming interested in ideas she finds herself to some extent cut off from other girls and inclines naturally toward boys as friends. They do more interesting things, discuss wider topics. Other girls appear curious and rather boring, passive and accepting. The social contempt in which women are held confirms this. She is constantly told that she is "quite good for a girl...
...paces Norman like a cannonball express, and the humor is solidly grounded in ethos (Jewish), age (middle), attitudes (parental middle-class), and time (U.S.A., 1970). The co-playwrights, Ron Clark and Sam Bobrick, are nimble and abundant gagsters, and while critical snobbism frequently dismisses TV scripters as beneath Broadway contempt, the fact remains that funny is funny...