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...Dudley House senior has won this year's Fay Prize--the highest honor bestowed on an undergraduate by Radcliffe College...
LEADER OF THE BAND by Fay Weldon...
This premise of Leader of the Band suggests why Fay Weldon, 55, remains an engaging outsider among the generous circle of contemporary feminist writers. Her twelve previous novels feature a number of heroines unsettlingly prone to confirming male stereotypes about the opposite sex. These females gossip, backbite, succumb regularly to the rhythmic fluctuations of their metabolisms. Having achieved some measure of independence or success, they are likely to throw everything over for some handsome rotter or an insincere promise of love and security. Starlady Sandra knows that her new passion will demand the suppression of her lively intelligence: "If only...
Complicating matters further, Fay decided to race the U.S. in a 132-ft. monohull, instead of a 12-meter (65-ft.) boat like those used since 1958. With time running out, Conner and his team knew they could not design a sufficiently speedy monohull vessel of their own. So Conner opted for a smaller, swifter, multihulled catamaran. Justice Ciparick decided to wait to see the outcome of the race before ruling on the legitimacy of the U.S. entry...
...expected, the U.S. catamaran blew New Zealand's monohull out of the water in September 1988. Fay then filed suit, charging that the U.S. had violated the deed of gift's requirements for a "fair match." Enter the New York Yacht Club -- the Cup's custodian for the first 132 years of its existence -- which filed an affidavit supporting New Zealand's charge...