Word: signetics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Supreme Court Justice William Q. Douglas travels to Cambridge to read members of the Signet Society passages from his new book about a mild mannered Maine river that is forced to use guns to defend its constitutional rights. In a lively introduction, the Society's First Woman President Ernestina Rathborne reminds the Associate Justice that the Signet is "neither a male chauvinist organization not an exclusive final club, neither a ham sandwich nor a lampshade, but rather Harvard's literary eating society." After the dinner Douglas and Rathborne elope to help a lonely Alaskan mountain defend its freedom of speech...
...feminist poet walked out of he Signet Society's annual Christmas dinner Saturday night to protest what she called the Society's male chauvinism...
Adrienne Rich, a Boston poet who was scheduled to read some of her work into the 150 guests at the dinner, made a brief statement explaining that she though that the Signet Society was a male-dominated institution and then left the Society's Dunster St. clubhouse...
Rich was scheduled to read from her works at the conclusion of Mayer's speech, but instead announced that the Signet had shown itself still to be a male-dominated institution, and thus an inappropriate forum for her poetry...
...GEORGE AND THE GODFATHER by NORMAN MAILER 229 pages. Signet. $1.50 (paperback...