Word: gloria
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...went to work as a song plugger on Tin Pan Alley -then as now a mythical street on the tattered fringe of Broadway. Hired by Sunbeam Music, Diamond sometimes felt like a tailor, sitting in a tiny cubicle and fitting songs to the needs of assorted Grade B singers. "Gloria wants an up-tempo ballad like that Patti Page thing," the boss would say. "And while you're at it, throw in some bongos...
...nine Women's Lib leaders held a press conference last week in New York City to announce common cause with "the struggle of homosexuals to attain their liberation in a sexist society." The leaders, including Millett herself, Ti-Grace Atkinson of the National Organization of Women, and Writers Gloria Steinem, Sally Kempton and Susan Brownmiller, issued a prepared statement. Excerpt: "Lesbian is a label used as a psychic weapon to keep women locked into their male-defined 'feminine role.' The essence of that role is that a woman is defined in terms of her relationship...
...Well, Gloria Steinem and Pete Hamill didn't like it. And, besides, if you like the book, there's no story." And with that Frank ended the dispute...
...reception of Wolfe's book has itself contributed another turn to the screw. Not only do we allow ourselves to feel superior to Leonard Bernstein and his friends, but we also feel a certain superiority over Wolfe himself for exposing them through the methods he chose. After all now, Gloria Steinem didn't like...
...Joyce Carol Oates is not a women's liberationist. She is not as groovy as Gloria Steinem, nor as chic as Carrie Snodgress. You can't rip her books off the Coop's feminist display table and liberate your grandmother for Chanukah. But The Wheel of love. Oates' latest collection of short stories, is probably the most powerful and harrowing compilation of female confessionals shared in a long time...