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...Kilt Next Time A British civil servant successfully sued his employer for making him wear a tie to work, alleging sexual discrimination because female workers were not subject to the same requirement...
Fornes’ Obie-prize-winning play doesn’t rely much on plot, but rather rests on thematic analogies exploring the relationships between husband and wife, master and servant, and torturer and victim. The play then asks if these relationships are fundamentally all the same. As the first scene opens, a single figure, a very angry Orlando (Jared M. Greene ’03), laments his low rank in the army of some unknown Latin American country. He blames his sex drive for most of his troubles and vows to change...
...neighbor who rushes out in the middle of the night armed with a gardening implement because she thought she heard a “Negro.” Peter’s elderly billionaire client Mrs. Arness (Joan Plowright) fondly reminisces about Ivy, the unpaid black servant her family employed in her youth. These culture clashes, which provide much of the movie’s humor, have the potential to offend, but shouldn’t. Instead, these scenes highlight Peter’s willingness to let slide the racism which pervades his world...
...calls himself. The two stepsisters (Allison C. Smith ’06 and Fidelma-Leonor Cobas ’04) are laughably sycophantish, especially when they are upstaged by mistaken identity part deux: Could the dazzling woman at the ball be their tireless servant who toils in the cinders...
...writings is hard to understand, especially because some, such as Wordsworth and Coleridge, wrote against slavery from their college days to the end of their lives. More than 40 women poets turn up, ranging from Georgiana Cavendish, the Duchess of Devonshire, to Anne Yearsley the milkmaid poet and other servant girls on both sides of the Atlantic. They give voice to powerful feminine perspectives on a topic that might have been seen as suitable only for the governing male elite. And they touch on themes - interracial romance, sexual violence, children - that deepen the pathos within the broader historic sweep...