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...half of humanity is less worthy of receiving an education than the other. Although President Bok has agreed to increase the size of each Radcliffe class to 450--a 2.5 to 1 ratio--he has made no public commitment to equal admissions. In addition, Harvard lobbied against Rep. Edith Green's equal admissions bill in Congress last fall. Thus, though ostensibly improving the admission picture on behalf of women, actually, the Bok administration is holding the traditional Harvard line. Harvard has a duty to provide the nation with leaders and assumes that these leaders will not be women...
Darcy Pullam's Dame Carruthers has a comic flair, and a certain verisimilitude as an old hag. Edith Marshall is a credible nymphet as Phoebe. Danius Turek as Colonel Fairfax, the hero of the piece, performs rather well, and sings beautifully. The scenery, by Randall Darwall, is by far the most original G & S has used in years, centered around a stylized, oversized scaffold which takes most of the action...
...rails against coons and Polacks, drunken Irishmen and greedy Jews. (All of which leaves us wondering about his own ethnic background.) He also deals with other burning issues of the day--liberation for the women, and even for the gays. This supposed social relevance is what makes Archie and Edith so popular...
With that, Irving and his wife Edith pleaded guilty to federal charges of conspiracy. Then they walked a few blocks to the Criminal Courts Building, where they joined their collaborator, Researcher-Writer Richard Suskind. In State Supreme Court all three pleaded guilty to New York's charges of grand larceny and conspiracy in the $750,000 hoax. The Irvings and Suskind were released again on bond to await sentencing on June 16. Even the guilty pleas may not be the end of the tangled story; the federal grand jury in Manhattan continued last week to issue subpoenas...
...work in business, and quite a few "have middle management as their goal." In this new atmosphere, secretarial schools are adding courses in accounting, budgeting, personnel training and other semiadministrative functions. "Automation has cut the amount of time that a secretary needs for typing, filing and the like," says Edith Foster, director of instruction for the Katharine Gibbs schools. "More and more bosses are looking to their secretaries as administrative assistants who work with them, not for them...