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...prestigious MacArthur fellowships are known as "genius grants," but it doesn't take an Einstein to recognize that men have consistently won the bulk of the awards. Now the balance has shifted: 17 of the 33 fellowships for 1992 will go to women...
...MacArthur Foundation wasn't alone in hurdling gender barriers last week. For the first time since the U.S. began naming a poet laureate, in 1986, the position has gone to a woman: Mona Van Duyn, 71. Van Duyn, a 1991 Pulitzer prizewinner, has often written about human relationships, drawing on her 48 years of wedlock to versify about "the complexities, bumps and humor of marriage...
...such episode overlapped the MacArthur phenomenon and went deeper than it did. Senator Joseph McCarthy has become something of an evil joke when seen in retrospect. But he stood high in the polls for longer periods than MacArthur did. Even at the end of Eisenhower's first year in office, McCarthy was supported by 50% of the people in a Gallup poll, with only 29% opposed to him. The history books tell us that many national figures -- including Eisenhower himself -- were afraid to defy McCarthy in his reckless early days; we neglect the reason -- the outpouring of popular support...
...distrust of the electoral system reaches a point where only a simple "truth teller" can put an end to the suspicion. The pervasive fear of communists in the late 1940s and early '50s bred many petty "saviors" who were going to rescue Hollywood, or the radio industry, or publishing. MacArthur and McCarthy were the supersaviors atop this pyramid of subordinate redeemers...
Forty years ago, it was Douglas MacArthur. Now it's Ross Perot...