Word: lysistrata
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...twist on Lysistrata, the ad is the idea of Judith E. Smith '70, Phyllis A. Koshland '71, and Margaret N. Gordon '70, who intend it to demonstrate both support of the SDS-sponsored Harvard Draft Union and opposition...
...flock of women, not enjoying their husbands frequently, decide they must change the situation. Lysistrata tells them not to enjoy their husbands at all. Her strategy doesn't spring from any nunnish credo. After all, she's the one who demands rhetorically, What do women want? They want to get laid. And she, favoring the practice, plans to make it possible every night. A few hard days of chastity and the men will be so worn out that, in order to go to bed, they'll scream for the peace their women ask for with stony faces. Then everybody will...
Another misconception about what's amusing shows in the interpretation of Lysistrata. Marty Ritter plays a little dynamo instead of an elegant, slightly aloof character. So lines like, "there's something about women's temperaments that makes me hate them," come out as expostulations instead of slightly wistful asides. Lysistrata isn't an organization woman: her eyes are set on distant heavens full of available males. In fact, she can hardly wait to be dominated again. Miss Ritter behaves too much like Susan B. Anthony to convey the real dream...
Tigar has a good deal of help, chiefly from the women. Like many of Shaw's women, the two female cabinet members--Amy Sue Allen and Phyllis Ward--are clearer thinkers than the men. Miss Allen, as the strait-laced Lysistrata, and Miss Ward, the giggly Amanda, are both very good. And Norma Levin, as Magnus' grand mistress Orinthia, plays her scene with Tigar magnificently...
...softer climate of Dieppe and finally to the French Riviera. His sister had become a Roman Catholic, and Beardsley, in terror of death, soon followed. In a last letter, written in "my death agony," he begged his publisher to destroy all his "obscene drawings," particularly his series on Lysistrata, but the letter was never mailed. In 1898 he died, aged...