Word: roading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...number of tenured women at Harvard--there are only eleven. Read the polls which tell you there are fewer college-educated women entering the job market than men without college educations. The women's movement has certainly publicized its cause, but seems to be sinking into quicksand along the road somewhere...
...such experts as Rutgers Emmet thread Hughes and Williams' James MacGregor Burns. A common thread that binds their thoughtful expositions is that successful leadership is a state of mind Leadership a speech; it is a hundred decisions, not a single act. Leadership is a march down a long road, not always in a straight line, but always directed to ward some distant landmark. Finally, leadership involves total belief and commitment...
...only question raised by Movie Movie is one of timing. Not that there is anything wrong with the way gags are paced within the film. Stylish Stanley Donen, who co-directed Singin' in the Rain and later did Charade and Two for the Road, has seen to that with his usual elan. No, what one wonders is whether after living off its own history for so long, satirizing and parodying the beloved forms of the movies' far-receded golden age, Hollywood can persuade audiences to come out again to share a laugh at lost innocence...
...heroines came late to the pages of the comics. Once there, they traced a colorful road, from Mamma of The Katzenjammer Kids, which debuted in 1897, to the flappers of the '20s and spunky private detectives, aviatrixes and reporters of the '30s who prefigured Superheroines Wonder Woman, Supergirl and, later, Doonesbury's Joanie Caucus. Women in the Comics (Chelsea House; 229 pages; $15) follows them all and includes parallel histories of women in the real world. Author Maurice Horn is a bit too inclusive: Playboy's Little Annie Fanny and bizarre S-M panels from Europe...
...spokesman for elitism in American theater." Brustein doesn't like his "elitist" label, and calls it "a political football and a red herring." The word "elite," he says, is misunderstood in America. People think that "no one is better than anyone else. Well, that's the wrong road to take--a person can have a special talent or gift, and we have to identify that gift and encourage it. I'm interested in quality, excellence, standards." He says he has preserved his ideal over the last 13 years, but has learned how to soften the application of it. Epstein says...