Word: sexistence
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Katharine Graham resents being labeled the most powerful woman in publishing. "That's a sexist term, and I really dislike it," she says. Still, what else is there to call her? As chairman and principal owner of the Washington Post Co., she controls a $370 million communications empire that includes the Washington Post (see following story), the Trenton Times, Newsweek, five broadcast stations and 49% of a paper mill. The crowned heads of journalism and Government gather at her Georgetown home, weekend invitations to her Marshall, Va., farm are almost as prized as summonses to Camp David...
This magazine is the real obscene stuff. Pictures of naked women lying on bearskin rugs with upthrust breasts may be sexist and demeaning, but pictures of women with khaki shirts opened and cartridge belts across their breasts are perverse. And the photo of a woman whose lip was cut off "with a rusty bayonet," run with an article on war in Rhodesia, belongs in a medical journal or a hysterical editorial to end all war. The mercenaries' stance is that war is grim business but somebody's got to do it, and this picture is hideous, but somebody...
Eager for a showdown at the anthropology convention, opponents of sociobiology tried to push through a ham-handed resolution condemning the new science as "an attempt to justify genetically the sexist, racist and elitist status quo in human society." The resolution also deplored sociobiology's pernicious influences on the young, through its use in school texts...
...care to admit. Sex really is the single most unavoidable fact of human existence. If the total abandonment of Miller's men and women to the demands of their bodies, to all kinds of fucking and anything they can think of to go with it, is perceived in a sexist light, it is only because society has too often made sex instrumental to female subjugation...
What makes all this sexist nonsense just about bearable is the basic sweetness of the actresses who play the Angels. In background, they are not so different from the better-established stars with whom they compete. Though older than the Angels, Police Woman Angie Dickinson was just another beauty-contest winner who financed her acting lessons with a secretarial job until Director Howard Hawks cast her as Feathers, the dance-hall girl in his Rio Bravo. Like another Hawks discovery, Lauren Bacall, she was very feminine but very much a man's woman, easy to kid around with...