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...College in 1956 (scholarship student, government major), she went off to India for two years on a fellowship, then came home to work in Cambridge, Mass., for a group encouraging American students to attend Communist youth festivals abroad. It was revealed as a CIA-supported operation in 1967, but Gloria says, "I was happy to use the Establishment's money against the Establishment...
...journalist-celebrity. After a month as a bunny, she wrote an engaging and unflattering journal of the furry-tailed life. "For two years after it, all the jobs I was offered were the same kind of thing," she now complains. "Everybody at a party would say, 'This is Gloria Steinem. She used to be a bunny.' It was awful...
This spring, when Clay Felker revived New York, which had died with the World-Journal-Tribune, Gloria found her medium. Finally, she could write freely on sociology and politics. Says Felker breathlessly and in terms appropriate to a sort of junior Mary McCarthy or a Colette reborn: "She is a modern woman, independent and activist, a beautiful, intelligent, with-it, extraordinarily well-informed, first-class brain." When she practices instant sociology, the first-class brain slips occasionally. Her recent "Notes on the New Marriage" between dominating women and homosexual men contained a fascinating idea, but was flawed by superficiality...
Though she has tried to get away from the "woman writer" tag, Gloria does not hide her feminine point of view. For the current issue of New York, she complains, in an essay about "Women and Power," that in a society which sees ambition as somehow unfeminine, "most women will have to exercise their much denied but very much alive instincts for power through men for a while yet." Happily, she forecasts a change in the future because "young girls are refusing to be emotionally blackmailed into domesticity...
Meanwhile, New York writers and editors play the guessing game of "why doesn't Gloria Steinem settle down?" Her response: "I always think I'm going to get married. The trouble is, I just don't want to now. You can't expect a man to give you your identity on a silver platter, which is what society would have us believe. That's dishonest, and it has produced a lot of bitter women. Because I have work to care about, it's possible that I may be less difficult to get along with...