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...overwhelming success of the April performances prompted University administrators to pledge their support for Citystep. Myra A. Mayman, Director of the Office for the Arts, even helped arrange the show's final performance...
More immediately, a crop of new House masters and senior tutors will greet returning students in Dunster, Cabot, Lowell, and Mather Houses, Myra A. Mayman, director of Radcliffe's Office for the Arts, will take over for departing Cabot Master Warren E.C. Wacker and Associate Master Ann Wacker. Mayman will hold the post for a year while a search for a permanent replacement is conducted. Joining Mayman at Cabot will be incoming senior tutor Elizabeth Hart...
More immediately, a crop of new House masters and senior tutors will greet returning students in Dunster, Cabot, Lowell, and Mather Houses, Myra A. Mayman, director of Radcliffe's Office for the Arts, will take over for departing Cabot Masier Warren E.C. Wacker and Associate Master Ann Wacker. Mayman will hold the post for a year while a search for a permanent replacement is conducted. Joining Mayman at Cabot will be incoming senior tutor Elizabeth Hart...
...after she was prevented from practicing law in Illinois because she was a woman, Myra Bradwell went to the U.S. Supreme Court. That tribunal turned her away, with Justice Joseph P. Bradley harrumphing, "The paramount mission and destiny of women are to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. This is the law of the Creator." The law of the land has changed some in the 111 years since, and last week a Supreme Court that includes the first female Justice endorsed the use of a new weapon by women seeking full equality in the legal profession...
Somewhere along the way, Vidal seems to have grown weary of his lonely stand against the barbarians. The more he castigated them, the more they praised and purchased his witty and iconoclastic novels. Myra Breckinridge (1968) was supposed to be a poke in the eye to smug notions of sexual identity; it became a bestseller instead. Julian (1964) and Burr (1973) insisted that true heroes of history are villains in the dull popular imagination; millions of people, including dullards, relished this insight. By this time, success dogged Vidal at every turn. If you cannot offend your enemies, why not take...