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...overall lack of female representation has caused religious orders of women, and laywomen, to fight for female equality. The ordination of women as priests is a long way off, if it ever comes, but a revival of the office of deaconess may not be so distant. More immediately, the National Council of Catholic Women is seeking smaller concessions, such as proportional representation of women on diocesan commissions...
...them down years later as autobiography. However, your explanation that Ganin was closer in time to the details than you were as an autobiographer is too hasty. May I direct your attention to Ada, a bestseller about time and memory in which an elderly gentleman conjures up his distant past with the most palpable details imaginable...
Alice Drummond as Mrs. Schmidt-Gordon was articulate, facially expressive, really perfect in the only well-written acting slot in the whole play. She talks glibly about a distant Golden Age when she was young, the air rich with humidity, and her house a more welcome prison. From her current vantage point, she's more like a burlesqued version of Mother Courage, hoarding her mementos, fearing sexual orgies going on in a locked-off room, generally despairing over "these days when dry mouth must kiss dry mouth." When she sinks in quicksand, her passing is no less...
...sections end with shots of Chinese woodcuts in which red children sweep some sort of reactionaries from their homes. Their inspirational tone is made quite poignant by their lack of application to the situation at hand; they have no social or critical context in the film, and are equally distant from Godard's pre-Revolutionary situation...
...electromagnetic smog is the increasingly intensive competition for the use of available radio frequencies. In 1949, there were 160,000 radio transmitters of all kinds operating in the U.S. Now there are more than 6,000,000, and the number will doubtless continue to rise. In the not too distant future, the entire world may become what RCA President Robert W. Sarnoff recently described as a huge "electronic whispering gallery...