Word: dearth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still a lady of gusty emotions and fervently held opinions. The dearth of roles for actresses is something of a crusade with her: "Sure women can get leads, like being a silly TV cop, if there is a man there to support them." She even tried quitting. For most of the past five years she has been living in England with Second Husband John Hopkins, an English playwright, playing housemum to her two daughters and doing needlepoint. She has returned, she says, because "I discovered that acting is what I do best." The Hopkins family now lives in suburban Chappaqua...
Kesler said the society's small enrollment is attributable to its low key approach, rather than to a dearth of conservative support on campus. He estimated that 30 to 40 per cent of the student body was "right-leaning...
...over again," Dahl says now, "I would include some students." He says without student views the report lacked important. Also, Dahl says he was disturbed by the dearth of alumni comment, which could only be remedied by an improvement in Yale's communications with its alumni...
...really fair to say that the dearth of women professors here is the result of a conscious act of villainy. Still, it's relatively easy to pin blame when you're talking about the academic level of sexism. It's when you get to the social level that things really begin to get sticky. Virtually everyone at Harvard is "conscious" about sexism or, if they aren't when they get here, they soon learn. A woman from a small Southern town who gets here freshman year and tells everyone she wants to be a housewife and mother soon discovers what...
This excitement doesn't come from witty titles like Dean-Askin's Bottcellis parody. The Dearth of Venus of Ta Kuang Chang's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mouna L a. Nor does it show up in Carlo G. Brogna's paating of a toilet with an accompanying roll of toiled paper tacked to the wall. Julia Allard's say of three mouths-obviously an assignment from a drawing class-is less striking than any of these but also more hosest. Because it's good--she's taken a simple exercise and brought life...