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...summary, due to the composition and method of selection of members of the ACSR, the committee fails in its purpose of investigating the moral side of Harvard's decisions. Instead it delivers the same views as the administration, only with an invalid stamp of "social responsibility...
...emotionally invalid or, at last, hopelessly and rather touchingly quaint. The women's movement called a world of once reflexive rituals into doubt. The masculine urge to rise when a woman entered the room seemed a sort of humiliating impulse, uncontrollable, incontinent. A man seated on the downtown bus might endure agonies of self-examination before offering his seat to a woman. The male had to learn to size up the female by age, education and possible ferocity of feminism before opening a door for her: Would the courtesy offend her? It made for ambiguity: If a man studiously refuses...
...book opens after Isabel, the heroine, has spent thirty years of her life in a small Irish Catholic community near Manhattan. We see the orthodox funeral of her invalid father, to whom the devoted her past eleven years as her mind records...
...American bishops that he was "just a beginner." That was the truth, and the reason why he will remain forever, in terms of policy, the unknown Pope. In his days in office John Paul was able to sign only one major decree, and even that will now become invalid: a sweeping reform of seminaries that he had postdated for December release. Ironically, the same document was approved by his predecessor, Pope Paul VI, whose postdated signature also became invalid when he died. Now the document must await the scrutiny of a third Pope...
Stage: The Imaginary Invalid, see Thursday...