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...result, despite a rather timid James Horner score, is perhaps the first space opera to deserve that term in its grandest sense. The plot is as convoluted and improbable as anything Verdi ever set to music; the settings are positively Wagnerian in scale and, especially at the climax, full of his kind of fiery mysticism. Above all, the emotions of Stari Trek III are as broad and as basic as anything this side of Rigoletto. Principally, these are the province of Admiral James T. Kirk (William Shatner, of course). His attempt to answer the cries for help that Spock transmits...
...Cries of outrage were coupled with calls for the University to issue a prompt condemnation of the document, and this time officials were more prompt in their response. President Bok and Dean of the College John B. Fox '59 issued strongly worded condemnations--as did Radcliffe President Matina S. Horner a week later...
...problem lies with Horner's statement. Her remarks are admirable enough; her strongly-worded statement, which goes farther than that of Bok or Fox in questioning the underlying attitudes suggested by the newsletter, reflects what is clearly a deep and genuine concern for the respect of women and all students. But while the content of the message is admirable, its timing is not. Under considerable pressure in 1977 to merge with Harvard, Radcliffe administrators held out for independent status, claiming that women at Harvard would continue to need an organization committed first and foremost to their needs. Horner...
...little disappointing that Horner issued not the first, but the last official denunciation of the Pi Eta Club's newsletter, which referred to women as "slobbering bovines" and employed violent sexual imagery. Curious too, in light of Horner's own praise for the strong responses from Bok and Fox, saying such an official response is "reassuring" and "essential for restoring the confidence in the basic civility of this community...
...much more appropriate if Horner herself had been the first to extend such reassurances to those troubled by the newsletter--100 of whom had protested a full 10 days previous. It seems that Horner has ignored her own oft-quoted advice, allowing caution to freeze her into inaction...