Word: lysistratas
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...Radcliffe administration has with drawn its protest that "Lysistrata" is too "vulgar" a play to be produced by Idler, the Annex dramatic group...
Also announced were the final castings for the production, which is slated for December 15 and 16 in Agassiz Theatre. Virginia Carrol '51 plays the part of Lysistrata, who induces the women of Greece to protest against the Peloponnesian War by refusing to go to bed with their husbands and any other...
Radcliffe's dramatic group, Idler, will produce Aristophanes' comedy "Lysistrata in defiance of a protest by the Radcliffe administration that the play is "vulgar...
Next day, the temper increased. Communist Deputy Fausto Gullo, a peevish pout on his face, charged his enemies with the old tactics of Lysistrata.* Cried he: "These last elections have been shameful. The government used unthinkable methods to win its majority. Do you want an example? Priests openly counseled wives to go on a 'bedroom strike' if the Communists won the elections...
...John Archer) of a Senator who is apoplectically opposed to votes for women marries a beautiful and unbudgeable suffragette (Joan Tetzel). The suffragette, finding all the men in her new family just as unbudging, makes converts, and then confederates, of the womenfolk. The wives, remembering Aristophanes' bawdy Lysistrata, stage a sex strike and bolt their doors. The husbands, remembering San Francisco's bordello-lined Barbary Coast, toss off some drinks and bolt the house. After an act of shenanigans, the two parties trade concessions...