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Goodbye, Columbus. This metropolitan New York "Graduate" was probably Radcliffe's biggest recruiter before "Love Story." Ali McGraw plays the ultimate bitch-goddess to Richard Benjamin's witty but unambitious librarian in the 1969 adaptation of the Philip Roth novella. First time on TV. CH. 5, 9 p.m. Color...
Like their predecessors, the new immigrants perceive the true goddess of America, Technology, not as villain but as savior. The factory, however sordid or boring, has legally limited hours and, customarily, provides a string of fringe benefits. "Adam Smith" points out in Supermoney: "Somebody who has spent 16 hours a day looking at the wrong end of an ox for sub-subsistence on a patch in Poland may not complain at all when he emigrates with a paper suitcase to a steel mill on the South Side of Chicago." The message is quite clear: in the history of American immigration...
Lexicographers Ms. Casey Miller and Ms. Kate Swift recently amplified the Women's Lib party line: men have traditionally used language to subjugate women. As they see it, William James' bitch-goddess Success and the National Weather Service's Hurricane Agnes are products of the same criminal mind, designed to foster the illusion of woman as Eve, forever volatile and treacherous. The authors therefore suggest the elimination of sexist terms. "Genkind," they think, would provide a great encompassing umbrella under which all humanity could huddle, regardless. Varda One, a radical philologist, asks for the obliteration of such...
...endless melodious recitative, rich with strings, harps and harpsichord. The music makes even a blush-laden plot acceptable: Jove desires nubile Calisto, a virgin in the temple of Diana. Figuring correctly that Calisto will do anything Diana tells her, old Jove transforms himself into a replica of that bosomy goddess. Meanwhile the real Goddess Diana is cavorting with a local shepherd. After her gay, if confusing, romance, poor Calisto is turned first into a bear, then into the constellation of Ursa Major...
...tenure." Rampant sexism, a retreat from earlier admiration, commentary on the university's controversial hiring and firing policies? Not quite. Knowing Dr. Shklar held a tenured position. In his eyes any perusal of her impressive record indicated the qualifications of at least a full professor, if not a demi-goddess, as she is viewed by some of her more devoted disciples. At forty-four, Dr. Shklar boasts a B.A. and M.A. from McGill University, a Ph.D. (1955) from Harvard, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Birkenhead Prize from the American Political Science Association, membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...