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Without dialogue, plot, or development, the monologues soon become tiresome and cliched. Patrick cannot sustain tension in this round-robin of self-revelation. He reveals more and more of each character, but he merely brings surfaces into finer focus, never taking us into the souls of the characters. The final speeches are searing, but we cannot empathize: by this time the characters have deteriorated into stereotypes capable only of synthetic emotion...

Author: By R.e. Liebmann, | Title: A Sixties Sell-out | 10/14/1975 | See Source »

...late '60s, she was invited to one of the first feminist groups in New York. At the session were Shulamith Firestone, Ellen Willis and Robin Morgan, now all familiar names in feminist circles. "All of a sudden I knew I was home," says Brownmiller. "I knew I was where I belonged." As a member of the New York Radical Feminists, she was a prime mover behind two major feminist meetings: a conference on prostitution and a 1971 speak-out on rape. Laying out the program on rape, she thought, "My God, I'm organizing a book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: BROWNMILLER'S BIG CHANCE | 10/13/1975 | See Source »

Quincy House yesterday started limiting the dining hall to only House residents, staff, and their guests at all meals. The policy is meant to reduce the long lines that have been appearing at lunch and dinner, Robin Katcoff, the House secretary said yesterday...

Author: By Brian D. Young, | Title: CHUL May Limit Union to Freshmen | 10/1/1975 | See Source »

...they came from behind, exploding for three runs in the second inning on two walks, two hit batters, a double play grounder and an error by Robin Yount, the Brewers' shortstop...

Author: By Alan M. Kaufmann jr. and Edward L. Trimble, S | Title: We Rode Around on Greyhound Buses, and Saw Some Ball Games | 9/30/1975 | See Source »

Last week CBS and the Block Drug Co. combined to make the unlikeliest gunfighters since Batman and Robin. Together they had stood off the 1 million-strong National Rifle Association and its allies, the firearms manufacturers and game-preserve associations. That is more than Congress has been able to accomplish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Gunfight | 9/22/1975 | See Source »

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