Word: doll
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...toys that are selling well include bikes and blocks, chemistry sets and games like Monopoly. Educational toys are also making gains; one popular item is a "talking clock" that teaches kids how to tell time. The Barbie doll is holding her own despite competition from her more glittering sisters who eat, tell time and talk on the telephone. G.I. Joe, a boys' doll that used to be outfitted in military togs, has been redecorated in deference to antiwar sentiment. He now often appears in the garb of an astronaut or aquanaut...
Consumer groups have cited some toys as being too sadistic: for example, a do-it-yourself guillotine set that is fortunately too small for a child's head. The New York chapter of the National Organization for Women denounced one toy as sexist: a semi-nude doll that is strapped to a platform while a pendulum dangles above her. For the first time, doctor play kits are selling better than nurse kits. Mothers are telling their daughters that they no longer have to settle for being a nurse; doctor kits get them off to a more liberated start...
Winthrop House--A medieval mystery play straight off the "English 100" reading list, the Second Shepherd's Play along with a reading from The Stuffed Doll will be staged in Winthrop House just before Christmas. The Winthrop House Drama Society is a strictly ad hoc group in this not strongly arts-oriented House...
...recognize the symbolism. Tiny, armored, venomous, Ibsen was an ailing spirit whose dramas stung the 19th century's conscience and gave European theater a new seriousness. After launching into poetic tragedy (Brand, Peer Gynt), Ibsen imported social realism from the novel and invented modern prose drama (A Doll's House, Ghosts). Then he passed on to the great pagan passion plays of his old age (The Wild Duck, Rosmersholm, Little Eyolf...
...Enemy of the People, reappears in The Wild Duck as Gregers Werle, a pre-Freudian busybody who demonstrates that helping people face their problems is often just a bland way of destroying them. Similarly, in Hedda Gabler, Nora, the relatively innocent victim of male chauvinism in A Doll's House, is re-examined as Hedda, a modern woman whose frustrated need to assert individuality transforms her into a "suburban Lady Macbeth...