Word: roomful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Four stores, the Coop, Harvard Book Store, Paperback Booksmith, and Words Worth, cited "The Women's Room" by Marilyn French, a novel whose story begins in a Sever Hall restroom and goes on to study women of this generation, as a heavy seller...
Charles E. Ridewood, manager of Paperback Booksmith, last week named "The Women's Room" and "Ourselves and Our Children" by the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, as that store's hot items. "Ourselves and Our Children" discusses family structure and the process of raising children...
November's "Campus Paperback Bestsellers," compiled by The Chronicle of Higher Education from information supplied by college stores throughout the country, lists "The Thorn Birds," the story of an Australian family by Colleen McCullough, "My Mother, Myself," and "The Women's Room" as top sellers...
...austerely elegant apartment setting at Joseph Papp's off-Broadway Public Theater is an antiseptic anteroom of an urban purgatory. A cubistic formation of white, black, lucite and chrome, the room suggests that a fashionable decorator has just made a hasty exit. The people E.L. Doctorow assembles here, in his first play, are upper-middle-class professionals and old friends whose blood count has been lowered by civilization...
...influential votes that it portends--has led the Federal Trade Commission to get involved. Groups like the New York Public Interest Research Group have proposed that ETS make available test solutions and answers. Currently, students have no idea of how they have done when they leave the examination room. Skepticism also prevails over the use of experimental questions within the body of the test; questions of fairness in this area have also been raised...