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Despite the doll debacle and other happenings viewed as sexist, like the sale of souvenir potholders, the conference managed to end on a relatively positive note. The 1,300 official delegates unanimously approved a ten-year World Plan of Action designed to improve the status of the world's 2 billion women. The 48-page plan, like all U.N. resolutions, is not legally binding, but member nations are urged to incorporate it into their own political and economic programs. Australia's Reid worried that the new resolutions would wind up in the "bottom drawers of government...
...Hackman's Moseby is asking incessant questions in his quest his subjects usually answer in strange, unhelpful ways. Sharp has rigged it, inevitably, so the women in the story are the most mysteriously evasive--when there are three or four of these mermaids tossing their hair the technique becomes sexist and tiresome. Worse yet are the strivings for novelistic originality. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?" asks a character out of the blue. "Why?" queries Hackman. "Because it's one of those questions everyone knows the answer to." There's no real purpose to this dialogue (a tenuous connection...
...fact that Ida has the ability to charm a 20th-century audience is impressive, considering that its basic theme is, well, sexist. Princess Ida, married to Prince Hilarion at the tender age of one (he was twice her age, he tells us), has withdrawn from society to become the dean of a woman's University"--an institution Gilbert seems to find inherently ridiculous. Anything male is strictly forbidden--the female dons are awakened not by a rooster, but by "an accomplished hen," and one of them is expelled for bringing in a set of chessmen...
...doesn't pay to get worked up about the sexist slant of Princess Ida because, like any G. and S. operetta, it is, after all, a period piece. And that is exactly how the play is handled in this production--which, thank God, doesn't try to get funny with any embarrassing 20th-century gimmickry. There are plenty of slapstick embellishments, but--from the opening blast of "God Save the Queen" to the fake 19th-century programs, this production remains true to the spirits of Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan themselves...
...fact remains that there are enough sexist women here to render the phrase "Radcliffe community" totally meaningless. Instead, there are clumps of women dispersed among and dominated by a male edifice. And as long as Radcliffe women remain fragmented, as long as they do not stand together on the issue of women's rights at Harvard, much less care about them. Harvard will remain a male-dominated institution unhealthy for girls growing into women...