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...first step toward repair, "Ms." sets out to expose the damage done to female egos by Freud and society. "Why Women Fear Success," an interview with Harvard's Martina Horner, assistant professor of Clinical Psychology, explores women's desire to avoid success...
...Quincy House a Women's Table spontaneously evolved out of a group of seven seniors who enjoyed having dinner together. Nancy McKeague '72, one of these seniors, said various members of the group are inviting speakers. Mary Bunting will come for an informal dinner there, and Matina Horner, assistant professor in clinical psychology, will talk on Motivation Theories of Women...
Ironically, her lack of skill in the art of deception is nearly the undoing of Mr. Horner, the most accomplished fraud in the play. He makes love to all the ladies in town, after winning their husbands' trust by the false report that he is a eunuch. Michael Tratner shows ingenuity as well as confidence in the role. When three of his mistresses visit him at once, he casually juggles three oranges, handling the fruit and the ladies with the same case. Speaking almost entirely in double entendres, he uses the same words to say different things to different characters...
...large cast sparkles in many of the smaller parts as well. Kenneth Demsky is particularly comic as Sir Jasper Fidget, who delights in mocking Horner, little suspecting that the supposed eunuch is making a fool and a cuckold...
...Horner cited a study which showed that up to 85 per cent of female college students exhibit a fear of achievement caused by "the anticipation of negative consequences of success in the form of social rejection and the stigma of non-femininity...