Word: cott
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Women have not been excluded from history, but they have been viewed from a male perspective." Nancy Cott, professor of American studies and of history at Yale, said in a speech last night in the Lowell House Junior Common Room...
Susan Willets Van Cott, as Mabel, is good enough to play opposite Fuller. Van Cott, who previously portrayed Phyllis in Iolanthe, sings the lovely "Poor wandering one" with operatic ease, her voice blending with the orchestral accompaniment. The part of the Major General's daughter and Frederic's wife-to-be call for little dramatic range, but Van Cott at least walks through the role without woodeness...
...boarded a bus in Montgomery, Ala. "My only concern," she recalls, "was to get home after a hard day's work." When the driver ordered her to give up her seat to a white who was standing, she refused. From that spontaneous act of defiance sprang the boy cott of the Montgomery bus system, the leadership of Martin Luther King and, it can be said, the civil rights movement...
Phyllis (Susan Van Cott) has the most beautiful voice of any in the cast; though--as frequently happens in a G & S female part--it is sometimes difficult to understand her words. Iolanthe (Nancy Wilson) also has a lovely voice, though her acting is wooden and uncertain. The chiefs of the Fairy chorus (Patty Low, Patty Woo and Rozlyn Anderson) are all fine. One of the few flaws in the characterizations is Doug Morgan's portrayal of half-mortal Strephon. One always sympathizes with actors condemned to boring straight roles while others are allowed to bring down the house...
Only one of Jonathan Cott's selections is disappointing. "Wanted--A King" reads like a cramped collage of Mother Goose rhymes. The author writes too stiffly and her familiar characters--Jack Horner and Mother Hubbard--detract from the narrative's originality. Unfortunately, this tale reinforces the "quaint" stereotype of children's literature with annoying passages on the order of: "She was most devoted to any baby; she loved the whole baby race, as every girl should do, and, in fact, as every right-minded girl does...