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...Jill Johnston proclaimed that "all women are lesbians" and began an onstage group grope with two female companions. The remainder of the rambunctious encounter featured Novelist and "Prisoner of Sex" Norman Mailer battling a phalanx of feminists led by Australian Author Germaine Greer (The Female Eunuch). As the distinctively distaff heckling mounted, Mailer shouted, "I'm not going to sit here and let you harridans harangue me." Mailer's was not the only maimed male ego. When asked by hapless Critic Anatole Broyard to spell out what the liberated woman wants, Greer snapped: "Whatever...
...great deal has been done, however, to discourage distaff doctors. The obstacles that stand in the way of any woman who wants to train in medicine are formidable. Most medical schools are loath to accept women at all, fearing that they will have children and drop out before completing their education. This fear is largely unfounded...
Tries Hard. On the other hand, the distaff White House press corps gives Connie credit for holding twice-weekly press briefings, something that Liz Carpenter, Lady Bird's press secretary, did only on big stories and Mrs. Van der Heuvel never did. She works twelve-hour days at her $30,000-a-year job, without the tranquilizers used by Mesdames Carpenter and Van der Heuvel. And unlike her West Wing counterpart, Ron Ziegler, Connie attempts to answer all questions, though she does not hesitate, with a theatrical roll of her eyes, to show her disapproval of certain queries. Because...
...museum." No museum piece, Auchincloss has written cover stories on persons as varied as St. Paul, Architect Buckminster Fuller and Astrologer Carroll Righter. He found Martha Mitchell, subject of his 23rd TIME cover, "touching and full of verve." ∙ TIME's much deals with the whole distaff side of official life, and much of that An came from TIME'S own woman in Washington, Bonnie Angelo. power petite brunette with an admitted fascination for "politics, power and personalities," Bonnie has covered them all for TIME for the past 41 years. Reportorial talent - and her stamina - has earned...
Miss Anthony would also have appreciated the occasion. For the first time in Harvard's history, the graduates of its distaff campus, Radcliffe, received their diplomas along with the men. And also for the first time, the traditional commencement address in Latin was delivered by a classical scholar in a skirt. Radcliffe's Kirsten Mishkin, 21, a magna cum laude graduate, borrowed a quote from Horace to take this signal honor in stride: "non humilis mulier triumpho" (a woman not humble in triumph...