Word: line
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Betty Friedan (The Feminine Mystique), 47, demanded entrance on the ground that their civil rights were being violated. Five of the ladies actually managed to brush by a Plaza assistant manager and the maitre d' to capture a center table. But then they came up against the main line of resistance; the waiters studiously ignored their repeated cries for service, and the ladies were eventually forced to fall back. "This is the only kind of discrimination that's considered moral-or, if you will, a joke," fumed Mrs. Friedan. But she has not given...
...where efforts are being made to meet their demands, they are still unsatisfied. In some cases, uncompromising campus militants seem more interested in disorganizing college administrations than in reorganizing curriculums. Often, they are succeeding. And school authorities and government officials, for the most part, are taking an increasingly hard-line approach to the student rebels. Items: >At the University of Wisconsin in Madison, National Guardsmen were called in to restore order after black students and their allies had disrupted classes for three days. "The university will not be closed down," flatly declared Governor Warren P. Knowles, who first sent...
Elaine May is a corrosively perceptive satirist with a mean comic punch. Her off-Broadway one-acter Adaptation, the first of a double bill completed by Terrence McNally's Next, makes one laugh till it hurts, partly because the ache of recognition is in every line and situation. She has the wit to see that if Pavlov's dogs salivated at the tinkle of bells signifying food, modern man is not so very different. He salivates at psychological flash cards marked Emotional Maturity, Identity Crisis, Making a Commitment, as well as at traditional cues for action such...
...impassive tormentor in a tirade that is pitiful but disruptive, the only flaw -and a slight one-in an otherwise memorable production. Giving an enormously resourceful performance, James Coco is a kind of vulnerable pixy. He can bare every scar on his psyche and yet coyly tease a line the way a hairdresser teases a curl...
...FOUL!" when a blow lands below the emotional "belt line," a taboo region that each partner should reflectively set for himself. Vague as this sounds, Bach says that well-motivated couples do not fake belt lines in order to duck issues; they know overuse will give them the fresh problem of a credibility...